Do sitcoms usually follow social norms or do you think that they have/could have a hand in shaping social norms?

A sitcom, clipping for situational comedy (situation comedy in the U.S.), is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. ... Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms.

Sit coms could have a hand in shaping social norms because they are popular.

Explanation:

in "people in peace, not profit and war" chrisholm uses inductive reasoning for her argument against defense spending by stating that the new administration, like most americans, wanted to invest in social objectives, so they must not want to prioritize defense spending. mr. nixon said "we can delay no longer in launching new approaches to the problem that beset them", but chrisholm points out that the programs were delayed anyways.