Sociological Analysis Of The Breakfast Club

The movie that I have chosen about contemporary American high school social life is the 1985 classic, The Breakfast Club. I chose this movie because I believe it displays an accurate representation of the sociological discussion from Milner’s article. Milner talks about how norms are important when it comes to shaping a student’s status in schools. Everyone knows the famous quote from the breakfast club “You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” This movie gives a direct representation of what Milner’s chapter is all about and I am going to give some reasons why. The scene from the film that I have chosen to analyze is, the opening scene of the movie. In this scene you meet the 5 students (characters) who have to spend Saturday …show more content…
First, the scene shows a bratty girl in a BMW with her dad, wearing a dress, and she says “you really couldn’t get me out of this?” and her father goes on to mention how she got in trouble for skipping school to go shopping. Right off the bat you realize that she is “popular” according to Milner’s chapter, in the section “some crowds and their rankings.” She was also wearing dressy clothing, and in a BMW with her father which explains Milner’s sections of “money and status symbols”, and “phones, backpacks, and cars.” Next, it shows Brian, pull up in the car with his mom, she begins to yell telling him that he better find a way to study something at this Saturday detention. Brian is known as, “the nerd.” It then shows a young man in the car with his dad, he is wearing a letters man jacket, which in Milner’s chapter, he mentions that it is a symbolic form of ethnicity, representing that you are an