Mean Girls Sociological Perspective

A Discourse Community in Mean Girls What is a discourse community? According to “The Concept of Discourse Community,” it’s a “discourse operates within conversations defined by communities, be they academic disciplines or social groups.” In other words, it is a group that has goals or a purpose and use communication to achieve that goal. In the movie Mean Girls there are many examples of discourse communities but I’m going to focus specifically on The Plastics.

For example, Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (2004) is a critical representation of one of the most popular and long-standing subculture’s in mainstream society: the high school popular female social clique. The basis and inspiration for this movie was from Rosalind Wiseman’s self-help book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, which focuses on how high school girls form cliques that are permeated with aggressive behaviour. Mean Girls (2004) aptly portrays the complex hierarchal social dynamic of a subculture. The overall aim is to critically analyse Cady Heron’s socialization from

The film Mean Girls is an American comedy movie for teens that illustrates the mainstream high school experience in the west. The main character, Cady Heron is a sixteen-year-old girl who is a new student at bob school in Illinois. Cady moved from being home-schooled in Africa, and therefore is unaware of the environment and lifestyle at a public high school. Cady then meets Daemon and Janis, who are part of an outcast group. Janis and Damien expose Cady to the norms of their school, talking her through cliques, and most importantly introducing her to “the plastics”, a group that Janis and Damian hated.

In the beginning of the play, the Chorus states, “From the moment the curtain went up, she began to feel that inhuman forces were whirling her out of this world.” (Anouilh, 14). Through the use of hyperbole, the Chorus is able to show to the audience that Antigone can feel and understand that the forces are telling her to die young and leave this world. Although she feels this, Antigone is still able to move forward because she knows it is her fate and it does not stop her from preventing injustice. Apart from her fate, Antigone explores the ethical dilemma of law and injustice.

The Two sisters are raised the exact same way, but have two different effects on the way they want to express their now different cultures. Maggie wanted to express her culture in the way that her mother taught it, but Dee wanted to express her culture differently because she wasn’t appreciative of the one she was raised in. Dee was not happy with the farm life; she chose the city life over it. Her family ashamed her as she explains that she changed her name, “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.” (Walker 63).

Belonging has a very strong impact on everyone, including yourself and people surrounding you. Some people feel the need to be belonged because of the attitudes of others, it changes in negative ways which drives them into negative situations. The movie Mean Girls explores the negative impacts causing them to be belonged strongly. Cady Heron was a girl from Africa, moving to a public school.

Young girls in Africa know this is as a tradition, a norm. That they all have to go through. So that they are not shunned by society. (Credibility Statement) When I was thirteen I joined the debate team in my high school. The debate instructor gave us each

“Maturation in the Eye” As a child grows up, a multitude of people help them to mature into the young adults they assure to be. These people can be parents, teachers, celebrities, or even friends. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee shows the maturation of a child through a young girl’s perspective named Scout. The novel takes place in Maycomb, Alabama where many situations conflict causing the children, Scout and Jem, to eyewitness maturation. Maycomb’s community endure many remonstrations surrounding one major event, the trial.

She had spent 12 years in Africa and was homeschooled her entire life until she moved to the states. Cady was a blank canvas that the Plastics were able to mold into their perfect person. The new inductee, Cady Heron, must follow the rules or she is no longer accepted into the group. The clique rules are ritualistic and only have significance to those immersed in the clique culture. Although she did not completely agree with Regina and her ways, Cady utilized the tools that Regina taught her against her and formed her own form of a clique, making Regina the

This is the story of a young lady who is consistently conveyed all alone on a voyage. The suggestion that this may be a mission is exhibited; which implies that learning toward oneself will be the result. The outline demonstrates the mother as both comforting as she encloses the young lady and authoritative as she brings up her way in both a legitimate and cautioning way. Quite a while prior, a traditional opening for a fable, recommends quickly an universe of imagination and that we are perusing a story that will contain a life altering lessons. A significant part of the dialect is centered around the mother giving the girl headings on where to go as well as how to go about her way.

She has just turned fifteen, but in her culture she is now a woman. She must put away her childish things and except that she will contribute to the family as an adult. In her mind she is still a child who plays with dolls and has little and now she must accept the changes

Moreover two of the short stories that she wrote was “everyday use” and “you can’t keep a good woman down”. Both of these stories show the true feminist in passion Alice walker has to inspired black females. To begin, Dee from the short story (“everyday use”) is a young college lady who is finding her new self after slavery and discrimination that eventual gain Africans Americans their freedom in 1950 and 1960. So Dee change her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo a African name and wants to show her mother in sister that it’s a new world for African Americans in they don’t have to be farmers.

Identity has a lot to do with how people treat others because another person’s judgement can shape one’s views of themselves. Yolanda has two very different lifestyles placed in front of her and she feels obligated to adjust to both of them. She does not accept the fact that she is a Dominican immigrant and cannot completely adjust to the American ways. However, because America is very different from what she is used to, she steers to that end of the spectrum.

Their biggest secret, was the Burn Book, which they write many secrets, rumors, and many mean things about every girl at NorthShore. When the new girl, Cady Heron transfers from Africa she becomes friends with Janis and Damian to get her through the first few days of school. Regina George includes Cady

The film “Mean Girls” is about a teenager, Cady Heron, who was homeschooled her entire life in Africa by her zoologist parents for 16 years and is enrolled in a High school, in US for the first time. Cady faces a lot of difficulties at first as she had never been to high school before. She initially meets Janis and Damien, who help her guide the dangerous landscape of high school cliques. But Cady catches the eye of a clique of popular girls referred to as “The Plastics,” led by Regina and her close friends Gretchen and Karen. "Clueless" is based on a teen girl called Cher, a high school student in wealthy Beverly Hills, who lives with her lawyer dad Mel and her stepbrother Josh.