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Functionalism In The Film 'Mean Girls'

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Functionalist theory states that everyone in a society serve a purpose that helps that society function. All individuals of a society have certain social roles that when working together allows them to form a society, this allows for there to be inequality amongst individuals (Anderson, Para 3). Functionalism also says that social order is maintained through public consensus (Anderson, Para 4). So in other words the adjustments that some individuals make in response to any behavior that isn’t part or the normal norms or deviant behavior, allows for change. In the film Mean Girls, functionalist would look at all of the different groups in this movie as important and even necessary to the proper function of the high school (Anderson, Para 3).

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