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Modern Media and Changing the Functions of Family /13

6. Technological improvement: attention to unprecedented
technological improvements in industrial products
7. Democracy and justice: a belief in the fact that all
human being regardless of their religions, race and
ethnicity are born equal.
8. Capitalism: attention to capitalism and laissez faire
a free economy.
9. Individualism: a belief in originality of individuals and
a belief in precedence of individuals over economy.
10. Secularism: the governance of scientific and non-
religious leaders, and seclusion of religious
authority from social arenas and spread of a
material and worldly culture.

The Effect of Media on Functions of Family

1. Media, Family and Child Upbringing
Family plays the most important role in child upbringing.
As a matter of fact, beliefs, religious ideas and
socialization are first formed in the family institution.
In the words of Kohn, a direct result of industrialization
was to bring huge changes to family structure and the
most important consequence was the transition from a
traditional family to a civil industrial family. Gradually
extended families of the past decades were substituted by
nuclear families of the modern era.
As a result, families gave the role of child upbringing to
schools and educational institutions, it can be argued that
profit seeking replaced passion and merits replaced
moralities in the family circle, the traditional families with
their traditional functions have been marginalized in the
modern era.