Social Learning: The Buried Life

Through the process of social learning, people acquire knowledge and form opinions by sifting through media, in particular TV. I believe that the show "The Buried Life" is an example of a positive form of social leaning. People, especially adolescents in society often take the opinions of what they read in a magazine or watch on television. Teens often latch on to these viewpoints because of their ephemeral popularity at the time. An example of this would be if a teen hated Kanye West after he publicly embarrassed Taylor Swift at the VMAs. Often, social learning leads to people making uninformed and uneducated decisions, which do nothing to further progress in society. 

Although there are countless negative effects of social learning, I believe that the reality show, "The Buried Life" serves as a refreshing alteration of this theory. In the show, four friends travel cross country while attempting to accomplish their bucket list. At each stop, they attempt an item on their list, while also helping a stranger accomplish something off their own list. While other reality shows follow idiots gratuitously drinking and having gorilla sex, "The Buried Life" focuses on helping people, and giving back to society. The four main characters are benevolent and admirable, where as other shows's stars only worry about getting a tan and scoring an Italian hottie. For once, MTV has produced a show with redeemable qualities and a touch of humanity.