Cultivation Theory

An example of Cultivation Theory is my Grandma Sunny and her new 357 Magnum. She watches at least three hours of television a day, which makes her a moderate TV viewer by this theory’s standards, and most of the programs she watches are either news or cop/doctor dramas. The news is inherently violent and the dramas on TV are usually very violent. After she saw that a large number of houses in her town had been broken into, on the news, she went out and bought a 357 Magnum handgun. My grandmother is about 5’1 and maybe 105 pounds soaking wet, if she ever fired this gun it would knock her to the ground, but because she saw on TV that houses had been broken into she decided that the world was not as safe as she thought and needed protection. Television has caused my grandma to develop “mean world syndrome” because she thinks that she could possibly be involved in violence.