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"The middle-class white family structure of the 1950s consisted of cookie-cutter houses, cars, and fashion. . . . [T]he mass media proved it could point people into certain sartorial and class codes of the suburbanite. Americans were expected to dress a certain way, and the avalanche of commercial imagery that accompanied the postwar boom — magazines; advertisements; and the new "Information Bomb," television — supplied constant reminders. Doris Day, Father Knows Best, Betty Furness, Ronald Reagan for General Electric — these were the voices and imagistic role models of suburbanization."-Source: J. Kole Kleeman, historian, "Commodification and the Counterculture," We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life. . . And Always Has, 2014According to the passage, which of the following best explains the most important effect that mass media had on society?

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