Mean Girls

time of intellectual and cultural advancement, the use of satire enters into the writings of both Voltaire and Miguel de Cervantes. Although these stories were written in the distant past, the idea of satire can be applied to the modern-day film, Mean Girls. This comedy details the journey of a teenager entering a new school and the steps she takes to be accepted. Using trickery and scheming, she is then included in the “Plastics”, a superficial, often envied clique that runs the…

For my second Journal, I have chosen to examine what role media has in portraying the ideas of sociological ideas. For my example, I have chosen to analyze the movie Mean Girls. This movie sets a good example of how socialization comes into play from the media. It can be analyzed through the perspectives of functionalist and conflict theory. The idea that it can be examined through the perspective of a conflict and functionalist theory. To some extent social class can also be seen in this movie.…

Mean Girls For my second Journal, I have chosen to examine what role media has in portraying the ideas of sociological ideas. For my example, I have chosen to analyze the movie Mean Girls. This movie sets a good example of how socialization comes into play from the media. There are many sociological terms that can be applied from the movie. The reading that best represents all these examples is from the the reading called “Constructing Differences”. This reading examined the ideas of what…

The Mean Girl Jake and his friend Jacob are walking down the hallwae talking when Jacob stops to see is ex-girlfriend Nicole walk to some girl Jake did not know and say," Glad you could make it Blake." That is when Jacob said, "Hey we 're you going Nicole. Aww don 't be like that. I said I was sorry." yelled Jacob as he saw Nicole start to walk away. "Go away Jacob." yelled Nicole angrily," I told you we 're over." "Oh come on. You know you still love me." cried Jacob " No I don 't.…

2. Mean Girls ties into sociology though the areas of socialization, social interaction, social structure and groups. The first concept I grasped from this film was social control. Social control is a concept that refers to the ways in which people’s thoughts, feelings, appearance, and behavior are regulated in social systems. The type of social control I choose was formal social control. Formal social control is carried out by authorized agents, which in this case is The Plastics. Like Karen…

problems which in my opinion results in teen relational aggression towards one another. Relational aggression among boys is typically physical. But between girls it becomes relational, leaving them feeling rejected, “less than” and with a damaged sense of self. Boys grow out of this phase by resolving issues physically, but girls don’t. Girls usually take out their anger among one another by bad mouthing and putting each other down. In my opinion relational aggression will get worst throughout…

The girls were a bit in front of me when I seen it trees and what does trees mean it must mean water! The girls are flipping out but can’t run because of being so tired from the heat. As we approach the trees I seen a little porch and 2 large trailer with the smell of rotten food. As we all walked up gina says “Maybe we should knock to see if anybody is in these if not lets break in!” I said “Okay that sound good both girls went up to the trailers and knocked “KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK” but no answer…

view and includes the opinion of this writer’s strongest theoretical perspective, as well as considering additional questions as they relate to the correlation of micro and macro sociology within the film. The film chosen for this analysis is “Mean Girls”, a 2004 comedy with a moral plot, written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters. This film relates to the sociological area of gender. What did you discover when doing this analysis? The Symbolic Interactionist theoretical perspective…

identities of race and gender have led to people living their lives under a blanket of oppression and how these identities interact with society. The movie Mean Girls is just one resource used to discuss gender. In the movie, Cady says “calling somebody else fat won’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter” (Mean Girls). Mean…

answers this question. According to him, people have to go through eight stages of psychosocial development and experience the differences between them as an individual and the society to be the way they are. Cady, an innocent little girl from the movie, Mean Girls, is a perfect example to prove the Erickson’s theory. In the movie, Cady goes through three of the eight stages of Erickson theory that involves trust vs mistrust, initiative vs guilt and self-identity vs role confusion that turns her…