What other reasons might there be for why your group of people/ place is represented the way it is? Consider the role of politics and the media e.g. hegemonic structures and why it might be in the interests of the media/ hegemonic society to represent them/ it in this way.
Since the introduction of the pill and the divorce law, and the desensitisation of sex in the media, the belief in religion has decreased rapidly. Teenage pregnancy has always been around, in some cultures many people get married when they are merely teenagers, in other cultures teenage pregnancy is frowned upon; however this does not affect the increase in teenage pregnancies. Society has become sex obsessed, every show has some sort of sex scene, and being provocative and sexual has become more accepted in society. Alongside that, sex education is being taught to younger children now, exploiting them to sex, which is meant to get them ready but not persuade them to have sex at a young age. I think that in today’s society, with upper class and middle class dominating, people feel dominant and teenage pregnancy is categorised under the subordinate group, of wild and promiscuous people. But where the Caucasian race would be in the dominant group, we still see them commonly associated with the issue of teenage pregnancy.
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