PCTR 1: Reciprocity Norm Explanation: Reciprocity norm is the expectation that you help people because they have helped you in the past. You help to benefit them, like they have benefited you in the past. Application: Reciprocity norm is demonstrated in The Bad News Bears in a couple different scenes. The first scene that demonstrates the reciprocity norm is when Coach Buttermaker is trying to persuade Amanda to come play baseball with his team. He uses reciprocity norm by reminding her that he was like a father to her and helped raise her. He then proceeds to say that “You owe me, I was like a dad to you,” which makes Amanda feel obligated to help him, because he helped her. Reciprocity norm is also demonstrated in the scene when Amanda goes to the skate park to try to get Kelly to come play with the Bad News Bears. She states “I bet I can do what you just did. It’s easy. I pull it off; you come play for the Bears. And if I don’t, whatever you want.” This shows that if Amanda can help Kelly, Kelly will help Amanda and the baseball team. PCTR 2: Displacement Explanation: Displacement is described as fluctuating aggressive …show more content…
When the team starts getting ridiculed in school and getting in fights with the sixth grade, the team gets together and they decided they want to quit. When they approach Coach Buttermaker about the decision they had decided on, he is disappointed and takes some of the blame because he feels like he has been lazy and hasn’t been trying. He then tells the team to take the field, and they have taken a vote that they are quitting. Buttermaker than takes the extra time to teach them and actually coach them, and they decide to stick with it, even though the team had previously decided that they did not want to play anymore because of the shit they have been taking at school. This is the example of group polarization that The Bad News Bears