Little Miss Sunshine starts off with the Ms. America beauty pageant. A young child name Olive Hoover, is watching the pageant on the television, fascinated with the events taking place. This film starts to address the idea of if there is only winners and losers, and how to be a winner. The point gets strongly put across as the father believes that you have to think you will win, and that is how you become a winner. The film becomes an eye opener for the viewers because it shows the amount of concern we have over winning, and how stereotypes affect a person’s life. The film continues to explain the main characters and their ‘issues’ and/or goals. After the beauty pageant has ended on the television we flash to Sheryl Hoover who is on her way
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Joining the military is a dominate culture idea because of how much focus the media puts towards it and how positive it is looked upon when someone joins. Dominant culture is the values, norms, and practices of group within society that is most powerful in terms of wealth, prestige, status, influence, etc. (Ferris & Stein, 106). The military idea also connects to social institution because of the way it got Dwayne to act. The workout routine and not talking were shaped because of society, causing his extreme reaction when he learned he was coloured blind and could not join the air force. Social institution is systems and structures within a society that shape the activities of groups and individuals (Ferris & Stein, 304). Dwayne throughout the film expressive his hatred towards his family, but as the film goes on the character is seen to have changed into caring for his family more and more. This may be because of the social identity theory due to the human need to be accepted by someone, and after being so close to people for so long you want to them to accept you to some degree, also the family throughout the film express how proud they are of him and how much they care about him. Social identity theory is a theory of group formation and maintenance that stresses the need of individual members to feel a sense of belonging (Ferris & Stein, 168). This may be the reason why the family ended up so closely together towards the end of the film and sparked the changes each of them went
Joining the military is a dominate culture idea because of how much focus the media puts towards it and how positive it is looked upon when someone joins. Dominant culture is the values, norms, and practices of group within society that is most powerful in terms of wealth, prestige, status, influence, etc. (Ferris & Stein, 106). The military idea also connects to social institution because of the way it got Dwayne to act. The workout routine and not talking were shaped because of society, causing his extreme reaction when he learned he was coloured blind and could not join the air force. Social institution is systems and structures within a society that shape the activities of groups and individuals (Ferris & Stein, 304). Dwayne throughout the film expressive his hatred towards his family, but as the film goes on the character is seen to have changed into caring for his family more and more. This may be because of the social identity theory due to the human need to be accepted by someone, and after being so close to people for so long you want to them to accept you to some degree, also the family throughout the film express how proud they are of him and how much they care about him. Social identity theory is a theory of group formation and maintenance that stresses the need of individual members to feel a sense of belonging (Ferris & Stein, 168). This may be the reason why the family ended up so closely together towards the end of the film and sparked the changes each of them went