The Mass media helps ensure conformity through news broadcasts,television dramas,and programs such as Cops that devote much attention to crime,criminals,and the police.This is part of what function of the mass media?

A) conflict generation
B) coordination
C) socialization
D) entertainment
E) social control

Social control refers to the mass media's ability to shape the values, beliefs, and behaviors of society as a whole, encouraging conformity to social norms and punishing deviance. The focus on crime and punishment in news broadcasts and television programs serves as a form of social control by portraying certain behaviors as unacceptable and promoting the role of law enforcement in maintaining order.