Essay On The Breakfast Club

Throughout the movie, Brian goes through the Identity Foreclosure, Identity Moratorium and Identity Achievement statues of James Marcia’s identity statuses theory. When Brian lives up to his obedient, “Good Citizen,” nerd image, he’s in the Identity Foreclosure status since he unquestioningly adopts his parents’ and society's visions, values and roles. He follows rules, questions rebelliousness and allows others to view him as weak for being a geek. Then, he transitions into an Identity Moratorium status where he delays his commitment to being the Brain and explores “alternative ideologies” and sides to himself when he smokes weed and connects to the troubles and philosophies of the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). Finally, at the end of the movie, Brian achieves the Identity Achievement status where he grows closer to a sense of identity and direction after “thinking through alternative possibilities,” or hanging out with the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). After being accepted by others, Brian builds his self-esteem and values his life despite his failures once and for all.

     John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, gives countless examples of the principles of interpersonal communication. Five high school students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andrew, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. By the end of the day, they find that they have more in common than they ever realized.

You know that kid in your 6th period, who sits in the back of the classroom; he makes comments under his breath, skips class, and has a vile view of the world. Yeah, him. He is considered a criminal and a social deviant because of his actions, the clothes he wears, and his attitude. By generalizing a person based on a certain characteristic and comparing it to a group of people, by definition is stereotyping. Bender, in The Breakfast Club, is the social deviant or criminal because when students see him in his ripped jeans, work boots, a thermal shirt, a plaid over-shirt and a torn flannel (UR) is associated with a tough, rebellious attitude (UR). Due to his abuse at home (US) he uses his clothes as a way to show he is not week to be given any sympathy. Students view him as a criminal by getting in trouble and smoking marijuana, the image is created (CS). His abuse he gets at home causes him to hate adults and authority of any kind. Seeing the preppy girl hanging out with the same group of people, her expensive clothes, and everyone loves her and wants to be her. The conditioned stimulus (CS) is the association and the expectation of their stereotype and when it is paired with the unconditioned stimulus (US), events making them the way they are (abuse at home, parental expectations, etc.) consistently the association becomes stronger. The conditioned response (CR) is the action towards that group, such as avoidance or hanging out with them. The unconditioned response (UR) is

Rebellion is an unavoidable yet beneficial aspect of any teenager’s life, and is often used as a theme in literature and films. The Novel A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews explores the constricting Mennonite lifestyle imposed upon Nomi Nickel and her rebellious tendencies resulting from it. The film “The Breakfast Club” directed by John Hughes illustrates the complicated lives of five teenagers, most notably John Bender and his constant rebellion against his school and principal. Both of these works use rebellion as their respective protagonist’s outlet for the frustration they feel towards their environments. Nomi and John both engage in recreational drug use in their unaccepting environments. They disrespect their authority figures through

1)A group role is the part a member plays in a group, as a function of your traits, personality, your expectation, expectations of others in the group. and who you are as an individual. Each member in the Breakfast Club has had an input into the story line and there are multiple characters with different roles, inputs and circumstances and all of them interacting to make this film quite interesting. Lets start off with the most deviant of them all.

Lastly, a social group can be defined as a sociological theory that was used to analyze the passage that was given. Defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity is where collective examples were given. “Twice a shift, for 30 minutes, workers watch Spanish-language television, eat and exchange food, complain, and relax. Supervisors almost never enter the room. (p. 103). It is in the context of the break room that Roberto and another colleague eventually tell Steve

Being stereotyped and having a label put on you by your family's history or your behavior, can bring either obedience or even worse, disobedience, not caring if it was the authority or the less fortunate. In John Hughes film The Breakfast club (1985) consists of five students, going from obedient with brains, to a disobedient rebellious kid. While Benders actions and past was given a label of a criminal, Brian was labeled as the brains in the group, due to his action in academics and being obedient. Could we say Benders and Brian's action were to impress his friends/family or to just follow the crowd ? or was it really their actions they wanted to take?

The Breakfast Club is an inspiring tale of five adolescents: Brian, Andrew, Claire, John Bender, and Allison, from diverse backgrounds that unite over a course of eight grueling hours in mandatory Saturday detention. These five individuals come from different social groups and a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are present, but in the end they discover that they are more alike than they assumed.

In the film The Breakfast Club, Deviance and Conformity to the norms are used throughout the film to help viewers understand the Labeling Theory and how it connects to the behavior of adolescents. Deviance simply put is the departing of social norms and and values in social situations while the Labeling Theory can be defined as that people generate their own self image solely based upon what others think of themselves which leads to poor self image and feelings about themselves and others around them. The Labeling Theory is applied in The Breakfast Club because it appears that all the characters feel like they already know everything about one another solely based on who they really are when they all first meet. In the film, we start to get an idea of exactly who the characters really are inside. In the first few minutes we start to understand that there is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal but by the end of the film we start to understand that the individuals are all different than what they seem. It feels like only in high school, you really care about how others perceive you, how you’re labeled and you’d do anything to just prove that you’re not some loser who spends time alone feeling bad for themselves. An example throughout the film is how defensive Claire acts when Bender is teasing her for all she has. By the end of the film, we start to understand that Claire does everything she can to get respect from her peers.

A group is a set of people or things that are considered and classified together who frequently interact and mutually influence each other. Whereas each individual of a group differs greatly from one another, each member shares a common goal or expectations. Universities, for example, are groups of students who are seeking a higher education in a specific area of study. Government parties are groups of people who share certain political beliefs and seek to attain and maintain government power. Wall Street firms are comprised of highly motivated bankers who graduated from the most prestigious universities. Despite the individual differences of every member, the common goal remolds their individualism by inputting its own expectations and goals

The breakfast club was to say the least a boring 80’s movie. But it was a good movie for the purpose of analysis. Simply put, it will not be on my list of movies to rent next time that I am at the rental store. I chose to explain the points of view of Andrew, the jock, and Allison the loner/quite person. I will also be making use of the key terms Clique Groups, and Identity Crisis.

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five totally different students in high school who are forced to spend a Saturday in detention in their school library. The students come from completely different social classes which make it very difficult for any of them to get along. They learn more about each other and their problems that each of them have at home and at school. This movie plays their different personality types against each other. In this essay I will go into detail about each of the students and the principal individually.

Thesis Statement- in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the psychological struggle between the need for stability and the desire for freedom is perhaps the central concern of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Communication is essential in our society today. There are many different types and methods of communication that people use. Throughout life, people learn to use communication in order to interact in the everyday world. People form groups to place themselves where they think they belong in society. Whether people know they are doing it or not, they consciously or subconsciously place themselves into certain groups. There are many different reasons for people to join different groups, these being for learning, activity, personal growth, and problem solving. Members of groups must all contribute in order to complete a task. People can have both positive and negative effects on groups. There are many concepts that

In Allports article, Formation of In-Groups, there is a social psychological approach taken. He uses in-groups and reference groups to aid in his defining