Primary Group's Influence On City Teenagers' Acceptation Of TV Communication

The paper is based on the survey of 428 middle-school student samples both in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and Wuhan, Hubei Province. It focuses on the analysis of primary group's influence on city teenagers' acceptation of TV communication. The relative sociological theories of structural-runctionalism, interaction as well as some communication theories are applied in the analysis. Conclusions have been reached. Viewed primary group, teenagers, TV communication as the micro-social structure, it has four functions: adaptation, goal attainment, integration and latent pattern maintenance. Based on both primary group and teenagers' mutual goals of TV communication, TV information, through the primary group's filtering, takes its action on the process of teenagers' socialization. The more beneficial that the action draws to teenagers' positive socialization, the more effective that the structure forms as well as the function operates.