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Mean Girls

Sociological Perspective

Gretchen Wieners

she broke her own values in life to fit in with Regina and be part of her close friends and when Regina started not to like her she felt insecure yet remained loyal to her.

She also replicated her attitude to match her social status. This shows how Gretchen was attached to Regina and being a Plastic

Regina talked down to others and gossiped a lot about people. Her behavior around the other students was aggressive and “mean” she felt superior than other students.

Regina encouraged the Plastics to follow her. Her attitude remained the same within the group or when alone. The Plastics influenced other students feelings and emotions.

She had trouble adjusting to the American school system. She was home schooled and didn't interact much with others in America she developed an interest in being popular and having a "plastic" life.

While adjusting to the American student life she watched other girls like Regina, Karen and Gretchen. she was amazed by them and was conditioned to change her lifestyle to be one of them and conform to their rules. Cady also feels "uncool" for being friends with Janis and Damian because of the schools values

Cady was friends with the "outcast" yet watching the Plastics she wanted the social status they had in school. Eventually the Plastics rub off on Cady till she becomes into a copy of Regina until she had a change in heart and comes to her senses

Psychological Perspective

Psychoanalysis

In the movie Cady represented a need for belonging and friendship. she was new to the high school and making friends was one of her biggest priorities.

Looking at Cadys personality through B.F. Skinner's theory of operand conditioning the Plastics influence on her shows how they conditioned her into becoming a replica of Regina.

The need for a change in self-perception is another reason why students such as Cady obey rules that were made my Regina.

Regina needed the sense of self-esteem and gaining respect from students in her school she needed the feeling of having strength and status.

Regina George

Regina had a deceiving and controlling personality she was referred to as "queen bee". She was raised in a wealthy environment and her mother grew her in the sense of control, manipulation and superiority.

Students, teachers and the principal of the school felt threatened of her and were all victims to her manipulation.

Other students idolized Regina and followed what she did from clothing to behavior.

The Plastics

The plastics included Regina, Karen and Gretchen. they were considered to be the popular girls who dresses good and gossiped and treated others meanly.

Cady's huge desire to be one of the Plastics gave her a goal to sabotage the girls to make her way through with them

The movie portrays the Plastics as the group that many students tended align their attitudes, beliefs and behaviours to conform. And whenever a student did not go with their rules they discriminated against them, for example the Plastics believed that they were the best and the others are socially unacceptable.

Anthropological Perspective

Cultural Materialism

Influences the development of a culture which is what Regina uses in to create the Plastics and their rules.

Structural materials used in the movie are like Social structures. And Superstructure materials are the values of the Plastics and the rules they created to keep themselves isolated in the bubble of popularity.

American culture

Hollywood vs. Reality

North American high school culture is portrayed in an exaggerated way like makeup, popularity contest, bullying, dating/sex and school systems.

This high school culture is popularized and Regina and the Plastics normalized it. It was their style of living and they developed the culture in school. include

Cady Heron

Cady was home schooled after her parents moved back to America because she wasn't able to go into the environment of the American high school.

Adjusting to the environment was hard for Cady yet she was easily influenced by Regina and the plastics and developed her character and behavior to fit in with them as well as changing her cultural norms