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Waiting For Superman Social Judgement Theory Analysis

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Waiting for Superman: Social Judgement Theory Analysis When watching Waiting for Superman you see the struggle that multiple families face when having to deal with the issue of finding a good school for their children to attend. While this is a main theme throughout the entirety of the film, there is also the immensely debatable topic of tenure for teachers. This makes for a great catalyst to help show how the social judgement theory is shown in Waiting for Superman. I will indicate multiple ways that the social judgement theory is interpreted in relation to debates and also use some of the interview segments as examples of latitude of acceptance, rejection, and also non-committal to help reveal why teachers that are shown in Waiting for Superman …show more content…

195). The theory heavily revolves around persuasion and what in fact causes us as humans to be persuaded. The theory states that there is different latitudes that an idea can be held in that severely affects the way an individual feels about a certain situation or topic. These latitudes range from the latitude of acceptance, which contains ideas that the individual would deem a good reason to do something, all the way to the latitude of latitude of rejection, which contain ideas that would deter an individual from doing something. In the middle of these two latitudes is non-committal, which neither deters nor persuades someone to do something. Latitude of acceptance will be the first point that I …show more content…

While many of the interviewees shown on Waiting for Superman are majorly against tenure, we watch as a proposal from Michelle Rhee, former Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools, to eliminate tenure and raise wages for teachers that don’t receive tenure get rejected almost immediately. Some of the reasons that teachers like the idea of tenure is for the safety net that it provides. This solemn detail acts as a main factor for affecting the latitude of rejection for teachers when thinking about getting rid of tenure. As seen in Waiting for Superman, in New York even when teachers are facing penalties, they are placed in “the rubber room”. During the period that it takes for any repercussions to take effect they still obtain their full salary and even collect benefits for an average of three years (Guggenheim, 2010). Teachers that are for abolishing tenure believe this is the main reason that so many are against

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