Mean Girls

Kristof Deak directs the powerful short film Sing, which centers around a young girl who finds out the ugly truth behind her new school’s choir’s success. Sing is a bully and a victim story about a teacher and her students. Even though Deak does a fantastic job portraying a story of justice and power, his plot line is predictable. This short film was predictable with the expected ending and foreseen character development. Short film is the genre for Sing. It follows characteristics like a…

world image (Waters, “Mean Girls”). They convince her that pursuing one of her passions, math, is “social suicide,” and she gives up something that makes her different according to the idea that being a “mathlete” is unpopular (Waters, “Mean Girls”). Cady gets caught up in a “Girl World,” one where she changes and finds herself following silly “rules” like: “you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week,” in order to gain acceptance and “friends” (Waters, “Mean Girls”). She loses the…

Many of us have seen the movie “Mean Girls”. However, when we saw the movie, what many of us did not consider much was the social influences that made girls mean. There are numerous psychological concepts that can be used to explain the girls’ behaviors and the environment that they were in. In fact, concepts such deindividuation and groupthink are influences that significantly shaped the girls ' actions in the movie. Although many of us were unaware at the time, these concepts were having an…

over a class skipping rope with one of my long-time enemies. Eventually, eventually one of us would reluctantly give the skipping rope to the opposing party, but other times I would get irritated and go tell the teacher that the girl was bothering me. Occasionally, the girl would cry in an attempt to not get in trouble, but normally the teacher would tell us to apologize to each other and the matter would be forgotten. These types of confrontations were the most dramatic events in my life during…

the film Mean Girls, the main character Cady Heron is an individual who has been home schooled her entire life until her junior year of high school. Her expectations of high school are met with a harsh reality of the underlying social concepts of the other students. Cady is essentially in two different cliques which allows her to have alternate identities, and as a result ends up causing conflict between both groups. However, amid all of the drama, the educators in the school aid these “mean”…

individuals who may be more knowledgeable, are viewed as threats to the groups harmony. It then becomes human nature of the group to reject that person and their ideas. Groupthink theory, in my opinion, is pretty common in young adults. In the movie “Mean Girls”, Lindsay Lohan plays a naïve, homeschooled new kid, who gets…

to guide girls to adulthood. Those factors were that “the doll would be pretty, but not to the point the girl feels insecure. [Ruth] thought of the doll as a teen fashion model and to be a teeny-tiny mannequin, made with curves to enhance the way the clothes hang on them. [Ruth] only wanted beautiful, well made clothes [for her doll]” (Stone 26). Ruth’s reason for that high standard was simply because she “believed a girl…

love whatsoever and she has no say at all even if she has feeling for another man, both of these regulations interrupt with someone's desires or wants. My last text-to-world connection is about the bullies in “Mean Girls” and the bullies that told Nina’s parents about Caleb. In “Mean Girls” the main protagonist becomes friends with a group of female bullies due to their popularity, eventually she realizes that they have a book filled with rumors and rude comments about people that they made,…

In the movie Mean Girls they showed different was that society works. Some of the statuses shown are subcultures, ethnocentrism, and multiculturalism. The subcultures that can be seen especially in the cafeteria are the plastics, cool asians, jocks, art freaks, and mathletes, and asian nerds. They present that different types of cliques that develop in school and through society as a whole. Another thing shown is ethnocentrism, which is greatly seen through the plastics. They have a burn book…

for college. It is also a place of great sociological occurrences and proves to be eye opening. Some films do a great job of telling a story using what happens in High schools. In the film Mean Girls Directed by Mark Waters, agents of socialization are sociological concepts used to tell the story about a girls High school experience. By using sociological imagination, defined by C Wright Mills as "the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal…