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High School Musical Sociology

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“This could be the start of something new.” Does this quote sound familiar? High School Musical is a teen/romantic comedy musical television movie and it’s the first movie of the High School Musical trilogy. High School Musical is about a popular high school basketball star named Troy Bolton and a shy, academically gifted girl named Gabriella Montez. The two teenagers meet at a karaoke contest on New Year’s Eve and instantly click over their secret passion for singing. When Troy returns to East High after winter break, he runs into Gabriella and he discovers that she’s a new student at East High. The duo becomes friends and end up auditioning for the winter musical at their school accidentally. The social cliques at East High don’t approve …show more content…

Social stratification has to do with inequality and the way inequality categorizes people and social groups in society. High School Musical demonstrates social status in the movie. Social status is the position or ranking of an individual or group within society. In High School Musical, everyone fits into a specific clique. They have the jocks, the musical theatre kids, the brainiacs, and skaters at East High. Each social clique at East High has acceptable behaviors, but it is not acceptable to intermingle with people that are outside of your social clique. It’s normal for the students at East High to not branch out and discover passions outside of your usual social circle. The social order at East High has caused the students to become ashamed of some of their secret interests and passions. An example of social status and social stratification on a different level in this movie is through the faculty. Troy and his best friend Chad got detention for and detention is monitored by the drama teacher, Mrs. Darbus. Coach Bolton, Troy’s father and East High’s basketball coach, found out and thought that he would be able to get Troy and Chad out of detention since the sports department is a top priority at East High. Mrs. Darbus told Coach Bolton that Troy and Chad shouldn’t be exempted from school policy because they are basketball stars at the high

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During the play, Troy describes the pain of prejudice and the breakdown of his once-promising career. He was about to embark on another successful professional baseball career when he ended himself in a job that was a dead end. He is particularly tough on Cory, a gifted athlete who aspires to play college football. Troy doesn’t want Cory to pursue a career in sports because he thinks it’s a dead-end and won’t lead to a better life. Troy expresses his concerns about Cory’s future and explains why he is so overprotective of him.

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Sociology Analysis Paper Sample Analysis: The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a film detailing a Saturday intention involving five very different students who are forced into each other’s company and share their stories. All the students are deviant in their own way and eventually are able to look past their differences and become friends. The film also offers detailed observations of social sanctions, peer pressure, control theory, and the three different sociological perspectives. The first principle seen in the film is a stigma, which is an undesirable trait or label that is used to characterize an individual. Each of the characters is associated with a stigma at the start of the film.

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The five students in this movie are associated with a different class statuses at the beginning. For example, Allison is portrayed as an “outcast” and a liar, while Andy is seen as a jock and an athlete, John is characterized as a criminal and is seen as an older guy who has failed in school shown by his appearance, Brian is known as a smart student, and Claire is seen as a spoiled girl, and who belongs to a higher class. The student has based their self being on social interactions and is impacted by their surroundings, the students have imposed the role that each person should play. Claire and Andy are recognized as being in upper the social class by sitting at the same table in the library, while all other students sit alone demonstrating

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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.

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All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was watching the movie “Mean Girls,” because it reminded me of the cliques and peer groups that were in my old high school. The movie is about a teenage girl who ends up becoming a part of this clique full of mean girls and after an incident she sets out to try and ruin the leader of the clique’s life. It was the cliques and peer groups that made me start thinking sociologically, because it made me look back and see how much I have changed since I came to the University of Kentucky, and left my old clique or peer group behind. In my sociology class I learned that a peer group is a “group of individuals who are often around the same age and are linked by common interests and orientations.”

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