The Impact Of Western Television Programmes On The Behaviour Of Our Youths.

INTRODUCTION THE ROOTS  Why are we what we are? Third world!  There are two broad competiting paradigms or models of theoretical understanding that seek to explain why some countries are poor and other are wealthy, why some are “first world” and others” Third world”.  These broad competiting paradigms are theory of “modernization” and the theory of “imperialism”.  Each paradigms has its own “clue concepts” or key explanatory categories” (Hagen 1962).  For modernist theorists the determinant of the social economic situation of any country is the concept of “modern”…