Social Norms In Pleasantville

The film Pleasantville depicts an idyllic 1950's community that experiences profound challenges to its unquestioned, taken-for-granted social norms. The movie works well in an introductory sociology class as an allegory about a settled or stable society that undergoes rapid social change following a major disruption in the worldview and widespread norm breaching. Specifically, the film depicts challenges related to the use of language, modes of communication, family formation, sexual norms, social deviance, art, and media. I recommend using the film in its entirety to demonstrate how in-groups resist change, while out-groups often challenge norms and produce positive (or negative) adaptations to society. One could also use segments of the film to demonstrate concepts like alienation, …show more content…
You have those people who will put their heart and everything they have into what they do, then there's people who start out working hard but then become discouraged and don't complete their goal, you also have those people that don't care about what they do and will not work very hard to reach a goal. They don't put very much effort into anything and don't care what the end result is. Sadly America has a large population of people like that. Today, people who don't aspire to reach goals or to dream big! America needs more people who will stand up for what they believe in. That will work hard to complete a life long goal and once they reach it will take pride in it! People that will help to make the world a better place by achieving their goals, taking pride in their accomplishments, and inspiring others to do the same!

Individualism

The 1950s are remembered for conformity.People were living “perfect” life and they were fine with everything is “perfect”.The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant was most of the time in the “perfect” 1950s but people back then were not aware of amount of freedom they had.