Sociology · Oct / Nov 2017 · Paper 12 · Question 1

Source A In general, family rules about media use in the home are typically less important to children than they are to their parents. For example, one middle-class British father claimed that he censored television for his children and would not allow them to watch television after 9pm. However, in another room, talking to another interviewer his sons (aged 13 and 10) said something very different. Quotes from the interview Interviewer: Do your parents have lots of rules that you follow about television? Son 1: No, not really rules. Interviewer: Rules about what time you have got to go to bed? Son 2: Yes. Son 1: They tell us to go up to our bedrooms at about 9.30pm and then we just watch television in our bedrooms until they come up and tell us to switch it off. Son 2: They shout at you and tell you to turn it off. Interviewer: When do they tell you to do that? Son 1: At about 11pm. Adapted from Moira Bovill and Sonia Livingstone ‘Children and their Changing Media Environment’.

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