The Mean Girls movie is a film that has an influential impact on different people. Through the structural and systematic setting, the themes flow from one scene to another. As a result, it provides an insight into a social world featured by primary themes such as gender, racial discrimination, sex, and ethnicity, and class. Special issues have been well-manifested throughout the movie. It directly offers an opportunity for the audience to monitor different trends in which the social change based on social influences noted throughout the film. Although the primary story revolves around high school life, it depicts every social aspect surrounding healthy lives and the impact of discrimination and ethnicity and social aspects in the society.
According to Lemert, everyone lives in a social world, thus has to established and adopted social competence. Besides, people have the ability to make structural sense of their lives and relationships with the world around them. Lemert further argued that social things are positioned alongside texts and traditions. Thus, concepts such as false consciousness rationality power, and gender contribute significantly to a person’s behaviors. The effect of these factors is therefore achieved and explained by different theorists such a Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Therefore, Lemert attempts to explain how these factors enlighten an individual’s perception regarding life. he further introduces dynamic practices that directly contributes to an individual’s life
Marxist theory applied to Mean Girls in different ways. In the movie, Regino takes the responsibility of leading the school. She acts as a role model since every student emulates what she does. The popularity of Regina makes everyone else in school as a less impactful feature. The situation is worsened from the way she treats other students. She, therefore, leads to a phenomenon of groupthink because the other students value what she thinks.
Lembert noted that sociological incompetence requires the participation of others to disrupt the normal encounter of social life. However, the effect tends to injure those affected by their actions or failures to act. Incompetence noted with social structure is further featured by complex structures. Schools, army, and governments can become large and complicated.
- Wright noted that sociological imaginations enable different people to understand historical scenes and inner life. It accounts for how individuals become socially conscious of their social positions. Wright further argued that individuals have to understand their experience The framework of modern society. The impact of social imagination is the idea that an individual can understand their experiences and ability to predict and gauge their fate.
Wright further notes that such an experience provides a lesson based on the experiences and encounters of a person. Therefore, the structure of a particular society determines the way people relate to each other. This is depicted in Mean Girl since the region takes a different structure from the mainstream society. The social structure within the school is changed, since students had to classify themselves into either the group of Regino or math clubs.
Marxist theory shows that an influential group can significantly contribute to social inequalities within society. This is featured when Regina creates and environment of a popular and non-popular group within the school. While those
students that follow Regina norms rise in number a sort of minority group is created, and this intensifies inequality aspect as highlighted by Wright et al.
Richards 2010 argues based on romantic theories. He explains different aspects surrounding an individual’s intellectual ability to impact on the lives of those surrounding them. He further argued that the lives experienced by people vary based on the social environment. Through the story of a famous writer who escapes Rome and celebrates sexual liberations reflects a society that has ideal freedom and different ways through which an individual achieves different goals. He explains different ways through which concepts of self-identity, along with aesthetic and moral considerations. Therefore, the focus of the author is to bring out clear outcomes of personal relationships regarding moral values and biological representation of nature.
Darwin’s conception of nature and evolution shows that people’s interaction is a vital component of change. It creates an opportunity for people to learn from each other, and this influences the way people interact to communicate and socialize. This related to The Mean Girls in several ways. For instance, Cady has to work out to get to a particular position in the group of The Plastics. Both Cady and Regina shows a similar capacity and ability to influence the social norms in their school. Her followers, like Gretchen and Karen, follow their characters. They are expected to adhere to specific commands within the vicinity of the school.
- Dubois argued that class and power influence society by encouraging unethical behaviors. He explains that income affects the relationship that people develop toward those that have lower incomes. Besides, manipulation of power affects a person’s attitude. The effect of social class is further noted with invariants’ changes of behaviors that tend to be self-beneficial. Therefore, social class predicts the tendency of people to act selfishly. Secondly, an individual’s sense of power contributes to the nature and the effect of the influence that a person develops toward other people. It further aims to understand the relationship between social class and unethical behaviors. It built theoretical bridge perceptions and findings of social class and those of power. Social class is further characterized by social rank and the ability to influence other people in society. Many studies have shown, however, that social class and power produce a similar effect. They both trigger identical responses to other people in the community.
- Friedkin noted that coordination and social control contribute to significant threats and issues affecting society. The author, therefore, analyzes other factors that contribute to the rising cases of social problems. Social control is viewed as a self-regulating system and voluntary adjustments to certain behaviors to fit into a specific class. Behavioral factors further influence the response to enduring social conflicts. When differences among people cannot be reconciled, the sociological perspectives cause a problem regarding interpersonal issues and the inability of people to adopt collective models in addressing different social issues. Understanding the conditions that expose people to the powerful mechanism of class and power is critical in developing solutions that aim to resolve critical social conflicts. Therefore, the problems of social control cannot be attributed to a single source. Instead, it has its roots in how people treat each other and perceive the impact of an individual’s power to take over different activities. In many cases, individuals classified to have high income or wealth have a high chance of influencing people’s opinions. Besides, it contributes to the way people relate to each other and responds to social problems.