Grease Social Psychology

The film Grease displays multiple issues that are common during the adolescent stage of development. Grease is a film regarding two 1950s teenagers who fell in for each other over the summer, who each consist opposite identities. Danny Zuko seems to have two separate sides to himself, as the girl he met over the summer Sandy Olsson who later attends Danny’s high school, did not witness Danny’s “greaser side.” This greaser side is the result of social influences of his friend group at school, which alters his behavior to appear more of the “cool greaser.” Sandy on the other hand, was not anything like a greaser but despite their differences, the couple made it work. In all, Grease provides adequate examples of peer pressure, which result in risky behaviors and consequences.
As implied throughout the lesson, social influences of peers and even family life can impact the behavior of an adolescent. At this point during their development, the influence of peer’s …show more content…
These cliques are effectively presented in the film Grease by the distinguished groups, “the T-Birds” and “the Pink Ladies.” The film also displayed the jocks and nerds that are mentioned throughout chapter twelve. As presented in the paragraph above, pressure from peers can influence an adolescence behavior during this stage of their development and these peers are often within a clique. Teenagers are the most influenced by these pressures and result to sex, drugs, and alcohol abuse. Pressures of risky behavior are displayed through how the teenagers continuously smoked cigarettes throughout the film. In addition, there was a sleepover at Frenchy’s house, where cigarettes and alcohol was involved. The film appropriately displayed Sandy as the pure individual being slightly peer-pressured by “the Pink Ladies” into smoking that cigarette and drinking a little of the