Many concepts of socialization are found throughout films which allow these concepts to be further demonstrated and studied. In the film Mean Girls, the main character Cady Heron is an individual who has been home schooled her entire life until her junior year of high school. Her expectations of high school are met with a harsh reality of the underlying social concepts of the other students. Cady is essentially in two different cliques which allows her to have alternate identities, and as a result ends up causing conflict between both groups. However, amid all of the drama, the educators in the school aid these “mean” high school girls into resolving their issues and making up with one another.…
In the movie, Mean Girls, it started with a girl named Cady who came from Africa, and used to be home schooled. Her first day in North Shore High School started bad, because she had difficulty making friends. The first people she meets are Janice and Damian. Janice, and Damian introduce the whole school to Cady including a group of girls that are known as the plastics. The plastics are a group of girls who are well known, and they like to express negatively opinions about everyone in school, and they write it down in a book which belongs to Regina George the main girl of the plastics called the burn book.…
Mean Girls, is a film loaded with stereotypes and roles of all different genders and cultures. Many people see this movie as a center of American culture and is known to many as a great comedy. Famous characters including Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith, Cady Heron, Janis Ian, and Damian help build the story and themes seen in gender and communication. Stereotypes of feminism, gay and lesbian terminology, and essentializing are key terms that are the basis of the movie Mean Girls. Characters Janis Ian and Damian, help to defy the stereotyping going on in the film by not caring what is being said about them and refer to themselves to Cady as “the greatest people you’ll ever meet.”…
Although these stories were written in the distant past, the idea of satire can be applied to the modern-day film, Mean Girls. This comedy details the journey of a teenager entering a new school and the steps she takes to be accepted. Using trickery and scheming, she is then included in the “Plastics”, a superficial, often envied clique that runs the…
Popular culture and mass media has a large influence on our identities, behaviors, and interacts with people in society. Thousands of movies are made and watched throughout the globe, it is a form of entertainment that presents a bigger picture than most of us can capture. When we begin to analyze films using sociological theory, we are introduced to new themes, conflicts, and emotions that we do not originally notice. In this case, I will be analyzing a clip from the movie Mean Girls, one of the most popular films in mass media today, and use it to demonstrate how class conflict and dramaturgy occur. A well-known sociological theorist by the name of Karl Marx spent his time analyzing and understanding how class conflict arises.…
I will discuss how Queer theory, Anti-racist Theory, and Radical Feminist Theory is portrayed in the Mean Girls. Firstly, Queer theory is shown. In the beginning of Mean Girls, we see some people that are home schooled. One boy says, “And on the 3rd day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle; so that man could fight the dinosaurs … and the homosexuals” to which the others return with “Amen”.…
Each year, more than 3.2 million students are bullied. Schools take precautions to provide a solution for bullying, and Hollywood does the same thing. The movie Mean girls total earnings from movie tickets was $130,953,026. This movie was meant to be one of Hollywood’s precautions against bullying, by shedding light on how damaging female social cliques can be in high school.…
“Mean Girls: Adolescent Stage of Development” Adolescence is an important stage of development. Many viewers that have watched this movie do not realize that it shows so many developmental concepts. This movie is not only for laughs but for real life examples of these concepts are involved in an everyday life. Mean Girls is a movie that is great for showing the life of an adolescent through physical, personal, and social development. The main character is a girl named Cady.…
1. The movie Mean Girls has its own unique high school culture and within that culture there are many social communities. People tend to divide into their own groups with others who share similar ideas and values and this was also true in my high school, but my high school differed by being more open and accepting different groups similar to the ending of the movie. Also, social communities also have their own rules for example the plastics wear pink on Wednesdays and this stays the same to this day. People are guided by rules to fit in whether its what they wear, do, say, or act.…
She talks about the jocks, nerds, stoners, cool kids, and the Plastics. Every group described had a stereotype attached to them, for example the jocks are considered good at sports and bad in school work. • Deviance- the recognized violation of cultural norms In the movie when the Burn Book got out Coach Car 's secrets also got out too. He was having affairs with two students during school hours in the gym.…
Mean Girls highlights the relatable social and power dynamics in high school through the two opposite personalities of Regina George and Cady Heron, while revealing the cruel world that girls can bring upon students using persuasion and coercion. I will be analyzing the movie through story characteristics in narrative transportation theory and social judgement theory. Narrative transportation theory can be applied to movies to persuade its viewers through identifiable characters, imaginable plot, and verisimilitude. Social judgement theory elaborates on how we are influenced in our attitudes and behaviors from the ones around us. First, I will explain how and why the theories that were used and if their use was justified.…
In this assignment I will discuss conflict theory and functionalism using the movie Mean Girls. Karl Marx states that class conflict is the struggle between capitalist and workers, and Mean Girls gives an example of that struggle. The way society is structured, the higher class has all the power and the lower class is continually taken advantage of. Even in high school there is hierarchy and I will discuss the effects of the lower class students and the culture shock of change, the desire to rise to the elite bourgeoisie class and the functionalist perspective.…
Bullying has increased drastically over the years among the United States and numerous other countries. Bullying has gradually become a rising epidemic among teens due to rates of suicide and depression, according to Kathy Shaidle in the article “In Defense of Bullying” is depicting that this increase is non-significant and that bullying is bettering youth by making them strive for more. That putting these teens through bullying, they will be better in the long run and more successful in life. Kathy states that she had crooked teeth and thick glasses, when she had attended school she was rude and mean. This meant that Kathy had never gotten bullied except once by a few older girls; eventually these girls became afraid of Kathy and left her alone.…
This can be witnessed with “the plastics,” which is composed of Regina, Gretchen and Karen. They represent the A-list clique where all other individuals and groups are considered inferior. They focus on the social aspect of high-school where dress-code and daily activities must be held to a certain standard in order to remain a member. Furthermore, Janis and Damien also influence Cady by stating that joining the mathletes is “social suicide”. In comparison to the actual high-school experience, this rarely occurs.…
Cordelia wakes up , the first thing she sees is the dimmest of morning, and the sun popping out of the corner of her window. She crawls out of bed looking at the wood paneled floor and walks to the light switch and walks to her closet. Examining her closet Cordelia soon realizes it Monday, she has to wear her school uniform. All dressed and clean Cordelia walks down the shiny, crystal clear glass stairs to eat breakfast. She hears her mum washing her hands in the bathroom so she calls out to her, “I’m ready for school mum!”…