The Role Of Technology In The 50's

The sense of family no longer denotes or represents what it did 30 to 50 years ago. Adults of 30 to 50 years ago matured watching shows such as Hazel or The Brady Bunch. The household had one landline, and the only media we watched was not social. These shows make it obviously transparent that the father is the provider, and the mother is the homemaker and the children’s caretaker. The nightly televised tv shows with clear role assignments were the norm for that era. Furthermore, an additional transformation that has affected the family unit is technology. “For all the attractive features of technological progress and economic success, the recent changes have served to attenuate human relationships in the family” (Hamburg, 1993:62). The division of labor is not what it used to be, and as we become increasingly advanced technologically, we grow further distant from what is real and matters. Years ago, the father worked and provided whereas the mother typically with the service of a housekeeper cooked, maintained, and cared for the children. Consequently, the norms of the era made functions clearly

A visit to the bank, the gas station, or any restaurant you will notice computers. The restaurant uses computers to pay for the meal you just purchased as well as grocery stores. “Over the past three decades, these ideal, although they are still recognizable, have been drastically modified across all social classes” (Hamburg, 1993:60). No matter how wealthy or how deprived, family functions have changed and with these changes, so have families. Today, technology is economically necessary for life. In life, technology is affecting our daily family lives. Technology may affect some positively, as in the child who can’t hear, but a majority of families are affected negatively. Technology now consists as part of the family. In turn is leaving us disconnected from each