In the movie Mean girls the five social interactions were all included: cooperation, social exchange, coercion, conflict, and conformity. The Conflict was between the Plastics and Cady real friends, Janice and Damion. Janice came up with the idea that Cady sit with the Plastics every day to ‘spy’ or them and see what a Plastic do on a daily basics. Slowly, Cady started to turn into them, she spoiled something Janice told her about Damion. Which was only okay for her to say.
Within ‘Mean Girls’ (2004), Regina George’s construction offers a representation of teenagers as being insecure through the use of dialogue, setting and body language. Regina is obsessively trying to look for foods that have ‘less than 30% of calories from fat’ as she mentions that she wants to lose ‘three pounds.’ Regina is putting effort into trying to seek validation and trying to fit into the society’s narrow beauty standards. Regina is looking at every food label to make sure that she doesn’t eat too much, which will make her gain weight. This suggests that she is insecure about her weight and what people might think of her.
Throughout the movie we see the different groups in high school that relate to one another in a way that allows high school to function the way it
The film Mean Girls, produced by Lorne Michaels and directed by Mark Waters in 2004 focuses on a teenage girl, Cady Heron, who experiences the drastic change of living and being home schooled in Africa to moving to America and attending a regular high school. While attempting to sabotage the plastics, the girls who hold the most popularity in the school, Cady unknowingly turns into one of them, leaving aspects of her old personality behind. By analyzing the film through sociological perspectives, the deeper meaning of the film can be revealed. Socialization Socialization is the process of connecting individuals to their community allowing individuals to experience new attitudes and perspectives.
Mean Girls: implicit and explicit social norms, conformity, obedience Cady Heron’s life changed dramatically when she moved to a suburban area in Illinois, after living in Africa and being homeschooled her whole life. She started at North Shore High and quickly got sucked into the stereotypical girl drama. Prior to the drama, Cady met two of her best friends Damian and Janis, who were apart of the out-caste clique.
In the movie, Mean Girls, costume designer Mary Jane Fort uses different styles in clothing to differentiate the popular girls from the unpopular ones. Adapting from Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey screenwriters Mean Girls as an exaggerated version of what goes on in a teenaged girls life. The plot of the movie focuses on Cady (Lindsay Lohan) as a new student experiencing public school for the first time, she must learn the meaning of cliques and the different dynamics of highschool life while going through the effects of being in the popular group. Cady is introduced to new rules as she joins “The Plastics” where Regina (Rachel Mcadams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert), and Karen (Amanda Seyfried) introduce a set of rules involving
For example, Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (2004) is a critical representation of one of the most popular and long-standing subculture’s in mainstream society: the high school popular female social clique. The basis and inspiration for this movie was from Rosalind Wiseman’s self-help book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, which focuses on how high school girls form cliques that are permeated with aggressive behaviour. Mean Girls (2004) aptly portrays the complex hierarchal social dynamic of a subculture. The overall aim is to critically analyse Cady Heron’s socialization from
Conformity is present in every group situation with adolescents. Adolescents are always looking to be a part of a group, usually conforming to the standards of the group. Adolescents often conform because they want to have the approval of the peers that are well liked or “popular”. A great example of adolescents and conformity is in the chick flick ‘Mean Girls’ through the different cliques in high school and how it affects the peers themselves. Caty, the main character, is faced with several difficult situations where she decides to conform with her high school peers getting her in trouble that becomes hard for her to escape.
Such social value leads out group members to have out group favouritism towards the high status group due to hopes of joining and also acquiring high social value. This is also viewed in the movie Mean Girls in how everyone admires the members of the plastics (PSU WC, 2015). The entirety motion picture is truly one enormous case of Social Learning for case when Regina learned how to be a ‘plastics’ from watching her mother and students in a college copy the conduct in an endeavours to be compensate in term of being recognizable in a college. Expentancy Violantions Theory are applied during this scene in which as according to
The film Mean Girls is an American comedy movie for teens that illustrates the mainstream high school experience in the west. The main character, Cady Heron is a sixteen-year-old girl who is a new student at bob school in Illinois. Cady moved from being home-schooled in Africa, and therefore is unaware of the environment and lifestyle at a public high school. Cady then meets Daemon and Janis, who are part of an outcast group. Janis and Damien expose Cady to the norms of their school, talking her through cliques, and most importantly introducing her to “the plastics”, a group that Janis and Damian hated.
The movie Mean Girls is a perfect example of many social-psychological principles. Three of the major principles that are seen in the film include: conformity, in-groups and out-groups and prejudice. Cady Herron, a naïve sixteen-year-old who has been homeschooled her entire life, is forced to start as a junior at North Shore High School because of her family’s job relocation. Throughout the movie, you see Cady struggling to maintain acceptance in the school’s in-group known as The Plastics. The Plastics, who represent popularity, high economic status and the acclaimed standard of beauty, are one of the meanest cliques at North Shore.
The behaviour of the Plastics influences other people's behaviour because characters such as Regina George have a strong impact on the rest of the school body because all the students want to be her or to be associated with her. Regina George has “minions” who follow her lead without thinking twice, which influences the other students to believe that her opinions and thoughts are inferior to theirs. Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith are considered Regina’s closest friends and follow her around and always try to please Regina. Having a crowd of people who will follow you regardless of how you act gives a person like Regina George the confidence to act recklessly and maliciously. For example, when Janis cut two holes in her tank top during gym
It centers on females and how they act at that certain age. The four mean girls, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Cady Heron represent the stereotypes of the popular girls of high school. The role of gender plays an important role in the movie. The movie discusses the aspects of how a “typical” teenage girl should be, in order for her to fit in.
Many of the characters in Mean Girls struggle with finding their identity and belongingness into a certain group. Fitting in is hard. Making new friends, moving to a new place, figuring out where you belong, and discovering who you are—all of these are difficult tasks. The films show how cliques can wreck everyone’s life. The film even shows how conflict often time arises within different socio or cultural groups.
Mean Girls, set in Illinois, depicts the socio-political climate of an American high school, with it’s protagonist, Cady Heron moving from Africa and homeschooling to be socialised in her new society. The antagonist throughout the film, Regina George, is portrayed as an authoritarian woman who has total control of the school (Mean Girls 2004). Regina is shown to engage with numerous sexual partners at the same time and promotes her liberation through wearing a tee-shirt with her bra protruding out the front when she finds two holes cut at her breasts; motivating a new fashion trend throughout the cohort (Mean Girls 2004, Robinson-Cseke 2009, p. 45). This depiction of a strong, independent woman aligns with ‘Post-feminist texts-films, books, magazines and television programs characterised by a model of young womanhood that is empowered, successful, entitled, independent, socially mobile and free to choose her destiny’ (Toffoletti 2008, p. 72). Post feminism is further reflected in the film through the power change which occurs, transferring from Regina to Cady, mirroring the transfer of power from second wave feminism to post feminism.
