Social interaction is guided through a network of interrelated status and roles, also known as a social structure. Social structure gives a society many characteristics and creates a distinct pattern in human interaction. There are many cases of social structure throughout the film PleasantVille. The film overlays a jarring number of examples of social constructs through very blatantly rudimentary means.
Status was a distinctive theme in the film Pleasantville. David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) have very distinct social statuses at the beginning of the movie. David is known to be very awkward and the nerd while Jennifer is known to be very promiscuous and popular. Although, throughout the film, David progresses …show more content…
Statuses are means in order to categorize certain behaviors, actions, and titles in society but roles are what brings those statuses to life and how your position in a field affects your status. Roles can be determined by what's your position in your family, whether or not if you are on a team, what you do as an employee, etc. Roles are a very important and recurring factor or theme in Pleasantville. Reciprocal roles are roles that cannot be achieved without someone else in a joint or related role. This can be found through marital status in which are marital status cannot be achieved without two reciprocating roles. As in Mr. Parker could not be a husband without Mrs. Parker being his wife. One needs the other role in order for their own role to survive. When someone has a role they are often thought to known what they are doing and the nature of how they should be doing their role. This is called role expectations. Role expectations often cover role like jobs which expect you to know what you are doing and the behavior that you should maintain while doing it. In the film Pleasantville, Bill Johnson is the owner of the local soda shop. His role expectations is that he knows how to open the restaurant, cook burgers, make milkshakes, and then close the restaurant.
Status was a distinctive theme in the film Pleasantville. David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) have very distinct social statuses at the beginning of the movie. David is known to be very awkward and the nerd while Jennifer is known to be very promiscuous and popular. Although, throughout the film, David progresses …show more content…
Statuses are means in order to categorize certain behaviors, actions, and titles in society but roles are what brings those statuses to life and how your position in a field affects your status. Roles can be determined by what's your position in your family, whether or not if you are on a team, what you do as an employee, etc. Roles are a very important and recurring factor or theme in Pleasantville. Reciprocal roles are roles that cannot be achieved without someone else in a joint or related role. This can be found through marital status in which are marital status cannot be achieved without two reciprocating roles. As in Mr. Parker could not be a husband without Mrs. Parker being his wife. One needs the other role in order for their own role to survive. When someone has a role they are often thought to known what they are doing and the nature of how they should be doing their role. This is called role expectations. Role expectations often cover role like jobs which expect you to know what you are doing and the behavior that you should maintain while doing it. In the film Pleasantville, Bill Johnson is the owner of the local soda shop. His role expectations is that he knows how to open the restaurant, cook burgers, make milkshakes, and then close the restaurant.