Grey's Anatomy is a popular medical drama that has been on television for over ten years. The series is based on a group of interns who first arrive at Seattle Grace Hospital. The episodes following the pilot show their journey throughout the medical program and the drama and struggles within their personal lives as well. There are currently 13 seasons of Grey’s Anatomy that have been aired on television, and they just recently aired their 300th episode as well. This television series has inspired many fans to go into the medical field as the actors and actresses are very good at what they do and even encourage the fans to do so. Many sociological perspectives can be seen throughout this series such as religion, deviance, sex and gender, and
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An episode that would display this concept would be when there was a maternity ward intern who was a man and had to wear pink scrubs as the uniform. One day attendings named Dr. Yang and Dr. Grey had to go up there for a 911 call. Once they were done with their work they saw the nurse and began hysterically laughing. Because it is not a societal norm for males to wear pink scrubs or even be nurses, this image was amusing to the attendings. The concepts of societal norms within sex and gender are becoming more accepted in today's day and age, however this scene shows the general stereotypes within sex and gender …show more content…
An episode that would best display this concept would be when the fifth year residents who at the time were Cristina Yang, Meredith Grey, Alex Karev, April Kepner, and Jackson Avery all took their board exams to become board certified surgeons. The outcome of this resulted in all of them passing except for April Kepner. The following day all of the new board certified attendings had a celebration leaving April out of it because she would still be a resident until she re took the exam. This is a prime example of a group or organization in society with the board certified surgeons being the group, with Kepner being left out of
An episode that would display this concept would be when there was a maternity ward intern who was a man and had to wear pink scrubs as the uniform. One day attendings named Dr. Yang and Dr. Grey had to go up there for a 911 call. Once they were done with their work they saw the nurse and began hysterically laughing. Because it is not a societal norm for males to wear pink scrubs or even be nurses, this image was amusing to the attendings. The concepts of societal norms within sex and gender are becoming more accepted in today's day and age, however this scene shows the general stereotypes within sex and gender …show more content…
An episode that would best display this concept would be when the fifth year residents who at the time were Cristina Yang, Meredith Grey, Alex Karev, April Kepner, and Jackson Avery all took their board exams to become board certified surgeons. The outcome of this resulted in all of them passing except for April Kepner. The following day all of the new board certified attendings had a celebration leaving April out of it because she would still be a resident until she re took the exam. This is a prime example of a group or organization in society with the board certified surgeons being the group, with Kepner being left out of