Conflict Management Styles In Mean Girls

The movie Mean Girls is filled with characters that are easy to relate with, quotable lines, and a hilarious but realistic plot line. One other major thing that the movie has is concepts of the development that occurs during late adolescences including social, emotional, and cognitive development. Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady that is attending a public high school for the first time after being home schooled in Africa for all of her life. She knows nothing of the American teenage culture or customs or about the public school system. During her first week of school Cady becomes friends with two people in one of her classes named Janis and Damien, who unbeknownst to her are a part of the

Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady who joins an elite social group at her new school known as the Plastics. While socializing with the Plastics, Cady develops a new, mean girl, personality and ends up sabotaging the group’s leader, Regina, and becomes the new leader of the Plastics. Regina retaliates by spreading the burn book, a book the Plastics filled with insults and gossip about other students, around the school leading to a riot and Cady takes the blame. Cady realizes that her new personality is wrong and apologizes to the school, makes amends with her old friends, and forms a truce with Plastics who disband and become regular students (Mean Girls, 2004).

In the film “Mean Girls” there were many types of peer relationships expressed. Friendships are described as a reciprocal liking, trust, and loyalty between all participating dyadic parties. An example in the film is the relationship that Damian and Janis hold because they are loyal to each other and the liking is mutual. Peer acceptance is to the degree one is liked by their peers. In the film Aaron Samuels is very much liked by his peers. Perceived popular is a child that is considered popular based on their peers’ perceptions. Regina George is a prime example of teenage girl perceived as popular. When students described Regina George in the film these type of comments were made, “Regina George is flawless”, “One time she punched me in the faced. It was awesome.”, and “she always looks fierce.” Cliques are polyadic social groups that are voluntary. A main clique in the movie is “The Plastics” which consists of Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith. These forms of peer relationships are a lot more complex than just a group of friends, these relationships of dynamic in early adolescence.

The teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, welcomes the protagonist (Cady Heron) into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. The use of satirist and comedic scenes throughout the film show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.

As Janis is telling Cady about the different cliques at their school, she ponders "How do I begin to explain Regina George?" This is followed by comments and opinions by different students ': "Regina George is flawless" "She has two Fendi purses and a silver Lexus". The fact that the second comment made about her describes the products that she owns says a lot about our consumer culture and recognition of brands, and the way we look up to people. Mean Girls emphasises that Regina is "fabulous, but she 's evil" - despite her attractiveness and the respect she is given, her behaviour and personality leave much to be desired. Even though she is downright nasty and universally hated, people still want to be like

The movie Mean Girls follows Cady Heron as she experiences high school for the first time in her life. As she is thrown into a new society, this film provides the opportunity to socially analyze high school. From figuring out her new culture and society that she is engrossed in to realizing how social status can both negatively and positively affect her values and beliefs, there are many concepts that Cady learns and is taught as she makes her way through her first year of public school.

Stereotypically, men and women have very different roles in the eyes of society. Gender roles and stereotypes have a history in religious, political, legal and economic systems. In reality, men and women are more alike than most people assume. Throughout the world there are struggles with identity, power, and violence occurring everyday between both men and women. The film Mean Girls, directed by Mark Walters, follows a young girl, Cady’s, transition from being home schooled to public high school. Cady enters the school’s group of mean girls, otherwise known as “the plastics”, which consists of Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith. Throughout the film each character struggles with their true identity.

The movie Mean Girls is a comedy that came out in 2004, which was written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters. The plot of the film is that it is in a high school setting and it focuses on cliques. Regina George, Karen Smith, Gretchen Wieners, and Cady Heron are the main characters that make up the “Plastics” and are the most popular girls, the “Mean Girls”. There are many cliques at North Shore High School, the high school in Mean Girls that range from the “Plastics” to the jocks, to the band geeks, to the art freaks. Cady Heron, the main character, who used to live in Africa with her parents, was home schooled for sixteen years of her life, and was a girl who did not care for fashion or what others though of her. Out of know where during lunch one of the girls from the “Plastics” asked Cady to join them and she does get accepted into their group. Even though Cady does not want to be part of the clique at first, she joins and later on she changes dramatically to fit in with the “Plastics”. In my opinion this demonstrates gender roles and finding your identity. Also, when a person is in high school that is usually the time when young girls are finishing

Examining the film Mean Girls, the use of tragedy in the film reflects on how the tragic hero goes through a rollercoaster of ups and downs throughout their high school experience. Johnson and Arp explain that the tragic hero has different parts of their character which contributes to what experience they are living through whether it may be good or bad experiences. Cady Heron, homeschooled at first for most of her life, is the new girl in school with little experience of what the outside world or society is really like but has a kind heart nonetheless. “He is great not primarily by virtue of his kingship but by his possession of extraordinary powers, by qualities of passion or aspiration or nobility of mind” (1294). Substantially, this is when the character starts the entirety of becoming a tragic hero. They begin by finding their good fortune or acceptance into society amongst them just like in Mean Girls Cady gets accepted into the “Plastics”, the classic queen bees who rule high school, as part of her acceptance into the highschool life and not knowing the problems yet to come as being a Plastic. The Plastics containing Regina, Gretchen, and Karen are known for being the most popular, having a lavish lifestyle, with snarky attitudes and creating drama around them. Furthermore, the next portion of a tragic hero is “middling” where the

The theme of deception in Mean Girls is most strongly represented by the relationship between Cady and Regina. Early in the movie, Regina causes Cady to hate her by ruining her chances with Aaron Samuels and then taking him for herself. With further convincing from her friend Janis, Cady becomes a part of Regina’s clique known as “The Plastics” in an effort tear Regina down through lies and deception. Similar to how Macbeth maintains a good relationship with Duncan, Cady slowly gets close to Regina appearing to be her best friend. Taking advantage of the trust she earns, Cady attempts to sabotage Regina by giving her foot creme disguised as facial lotion and cutting holes in her clothes. She successfully deceives her by supplying her with “nutrition bars” to help her lose weight that actually cause her to gain a substantial amount of weight. Eventually this leads to Regina being kicked out of their lunch table and group when she wears sweatpants lunch, which is breaking their rules. As a result, Cady becomes the leader of “The Plastics” due to this effective act of deception just like Macbeth becomes king after deceiving

Mean Girls is about a young teen girl Cady Heron who just moved from Africa to attend a public high school in America for the first time. This is very different for Cady because the high school setting in America will be extremely different from how it was when she was living in Africa. It’s not easy for her because she is not used to the American customs or “norms”. Within the first couple of days of school she becomes really good friends with two people named Janis and Damien. In the school there are many many cliques, and Janis

The need to create an identity for oneself is a strong human desire with an intensity that is equaled only by the craving to become part of a community. With such strong yearnings for individuality as well as a sense of attachment within a group, the most familiar consequence is conflicting emotions that are all too easily persuaded. The 2004 film Mean Girls exhibits various examples of identification and social influence as well as the level of persuasion they hold over the decision making process of the main character, Cady. After arriving at a new school, Cady is immediately accepted by two unpopular students, but then attempts to become noticed by the most popular group of girls, The Plastics. Once Cady is accepted by The Plastics, her moral compass, belief systems, and actions change in order to more closely reflect those around her and solidify her status

The last psychological perspective of psychology to compare “Mean Girls” to is the behaviorist approach. This approach emphasizes the importance of environmental and situational determinants of behavior. Simply because of the new environment that Cady is thrust into her entire behavior is changed. She acts completely unlike her normal self, adapting and becoming an expert at backstabbing and manipulating. Through her manipulation she learns to control everyone around her, because according to this theory people and situations influence each other

In the teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, the protagonist (Cady Heron) is welcomed into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. Throughout the film satirist and comedic scenes are used to show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.

This will be an introduction to a few of the functions of education and how they relate to the experiences of Cady Heron in the movie “Mean Girls”.