Being Under Estimated This documentary is about two girls’ journey as they are released from their juvenile home after committing a crime. At first glance, these two girls look the same; both of them committed some sort of crime and ended up in a juvenile home. Throughout the documentary, Shanae is seen as someone who wants to change because of her past mistake. On the other hand, Megan struggles more because she is starved for love. What makes this girls circumstances different is that Shanae has a family that loves her and want her to get better, while Megan comes from a broken home where her mom is constantly in jail. In order to understand both Megan and Shanae’s struggle, the labeling theory is one of the theories that fit their situation. …show more content…
This label then becomes how people treat the person in question and how that person is categorize. This theory is applied to Shanae and Megan’s story because there are many instances in which they are labeled troubled. An interesting scene that shows this is when Shanae is with a counselor and he is showing her pictures of what’s expected of her. Some of the pictures are of a stereotypical good girl (wearing a blouse and plaid skirt) and bad girl (wearing clothes that are not “proper”). Shanae’s makes a good point when she asks the counselor why the girl in a plaid skirt is considered good why the bad girl is not considered a role model without knowing them. The counselor does not hesitate to tell her a good girl would not dress like that. Another example is when some girls ask Shanae what her crime is. She responds that she killed someone and by saying that the other girls look at her …show more content…
This theory has two components, External and Internal containments, but the situation that fits both Megan and Shanae’s is internal containment. The internal containment theory deals with self-esteem and personal self-image in order to make good decisions. An example of this is seen in Shanae’s story. Although Shanae has committed murder, being a minor has saved her from a living in prison and given a second chance to atone and change. Shanae recognizes that she has made a grave mistake, and because of that she doesn’t let her past define her and gets accepted into a community college. In Megan’s case, after deciding that her mother does not define her, she chooses to be different from her. Her independence is seen as she moves out of her grandmother’s house and finds a stable
Beyond the basic need for a sense of control, people are driven by their sense of identity, of who they are. Each person lives in their own universes, which are centered upon their feeling of self-purpose. There are multiple types of identities such as individual and group identities. Each person's identity is formed differently because of the unique experiences every individual encounters. The formation can be affected by many things such as their home environment, social concurrences, and physiological health. This story, A Separate Peace, exhibits interesting main characters which establish the frequent struggles of personal identity in adolescence.
Hester’s true character is shielded from view when the archetype of temptress is placed upon her, both verbally and through the scarlet letter, and this archetype changes her appearance and she conforms to society because of it. Defiance and resistance are Romanticism characteristics that Hester portrays, and through her resistance Hester sheds the stereotype of an immoral temptress and is viewed as a misunderstood artist. [This is where I put my profound sentences about labels and their
During this stage, the socialization of children and gradual separation from parents occurs; relationships with peers and school achievements are important for children during this time. During this stage, the developmental task for couples is to preserve a valuable relationship with each other (Friedman et al., 2003, p. 121). The Davis family have a diminished ability to achieve these tasks. Shakeeka’s daily living resembles more of the lifestyle of a single mother than a married woman. Not only Ben’s presence is limited, but Shakeeka cannot always count on his emotional support; both spouses have their own lives and set of problems. Long distance relationships and living separate lives undermines the prospect of building a strong marriage; especially that they have been married for only a year and they are still establishing their relationship. Isaiah’s socialization is also not on the right track and his friends do not necessarily motivate him to achieve success in school; he was already caught shoplifting with his friends and there is possibility that he may decide to join the gang. Sheera is also affected by the disturbed family situation and does not want to go to school. In all aspects, the Davis family is far from achieving the expected stage of their developmental
Labeling theory of deviance suggests that when one is labeled constantly on the basis of any minority it gives rise to deviant behavior in order to prove the strength of the minority. The minority has been labeled so by people for a long time. They have been labeled because of their race. The gang is labeled anti-social because of their criminal behavior which turns them further to deviance. The use of the labeling theory can be seen being implemented very judiciously
In the case of (Sales description of) the “Bling Ring”, there several crimes committed by different parties and some of these sub-cultural theories try to provide basis for their explanations. Alexis in the case of “Bling Ring” gets a chance to tell her story and what she has gone through in part of her life. She is currently divorced to her boy friend that she had met through her best friend’s ex-boyfriend. She had fallen in love with him with aim of making love with him at the end of it all. She also barely knew that her boyfriend was doing drugs till when she met him accidentally. This shows some of crimes that the juveniles involve themselves into. The act of falling in love with someone with an intention of making love shows some social evils surrounding juvenile delinquency. According to the sub-cultural theories there exist two distinct groups in the society, that is, the upper class that is considered to be law abiding, respectful and upholds the dominants values then there is the other class that is directly opposite of the upper class and does everything reverse of t...
In the novel, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a youthful girl by the name of Esperanza Cordero is on the journey called life. Throughout the beginning years of her life, Esperanza faces many struggles and must conquer many obstacles. Esperanza’s most substantial and arduous impediment is one that a majority of adolescents face, as she tries to unravel the different aspects of herself and try to piece them together. The search for identity is a recurring theme in multiple books, but Cisneros thoroughly explains the hardships a person faces while on the quest for who they truly are.
This concept is a fixed impression of a group of people which we than perceive specific individuals. An example of this in the movie is when Edward is stereotyping Vivian into the role of a drug user because she is a prostitute, not because of who she is.
Human development can be changed and altered by significant life events. This case study will take a look at the documentary, ‘Love, Lust and Lies’ and will explore Josie Peterson’s life from the age of fourteen right through to the age of forty-seven. Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory and Burrhus Fredric Skinner’s operant conditioning theory will be introduced and applied to a major life event in Josie’s life.
In the story Wild Flower, Nina Smart tells her story of staying in Africa, Sierra Leonean, with her biological father. It unravels to reveal a terrifying truth behind a secretive women's society called Bondo society. When a girl comes of age, parents pay the society to kidnap and initiate their child. Nina soon finds out that initiation means mutilation of her body. Luckily Nina is smart and forms a plan to escape. Once she escapes she becomes a voice for all of the victims who have suffered the fate she avoided. Through her campaign to stop mutilation of the vagin area, she meets a women who tells her story of the trauma she went through. In this mini research, it’ll be based on the long term impacts of the girls mental and physical trauma.
People always wonder who they are and how they came to be that person. Erickson, a Freudian ego-psychologist, tackles this issue as in his quest, he discovers how personality develops in a series of stages. Additionally, Erickson also discovers growing up, especially for other cultures like Asian-American or African American is toilsome. Not to mention, Cady on the movie, “The Mean Girls” also grew up in a foreign country. As a matter of fact Cady got wrapped up in different stages of Erickson’s theory when she first arrived in a foreign high school. The three stages of Erickson’s theory Cady undergoes are trust vs mistrust, ego-identity vs role-confusion and initiative vs guilt.
Adolescence is the stage in life when you are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. There are many things that still need to be explored, learned and conquered. In the film Thirteen, the main character, Tracy Freeland, is just entering adolescence. While trying to conquer Erikson’s theory of Identity vs. Role confusion, Tracy is affected by many influences, including family and friends that hinder her development. Many concepts from what we have learned in class can be applied to this character from identity development, to depression, to adolescent sexuality and more. In this film Tracy is a prime example of an adolescent and much of what I have learned this year can be applied to her character.
When children are treated unfairly because of perceived ideas, it is only reasonable to assume the child will have unusual values just as Pearl’s values have become twisted from the norm. Throughout her life has endured lonesomeness and fear, her foundation has been very uneven.
For instance she sees Evie at school and she likes the way Evie dress, how she is very popular, etc. Tracy eventually convince her mother that she needs new clothes, she only wanted new clothes to impressed Evie so she could hang out with her. One day Evie gives Tracy her new (but it was to wrong number) so they could hang out. Tracy finds them at a store, she finds out how Evie and her friends be getting out the new and cool things, They steal, so Tracy took it upon herself to go sit beside a lady waiting at the bus stop talking on the phone and she steals the lady’s’ wallet out of her purse. That’s when Eve accepted Tracy as her friend. According to Erik Erikson (1902-1994) he used the term identity crisis to capture the essence of confusion a person feels when she experience discomfort about herself. Meaning a teen who is very smart and competent but not a part of the ‘popular crowd at school, may aspire o popularity even though she knows the group often behaves in ways that she is not used to (LifeSmart
People are always being put into social groups in our everyday life and people put down these groups with harsh words. In Of Mice and Men, Crooks is black so they kept him in a stable with the animals instead of with the other ranch hands. Curley’s wife was a woman and in this time period, all women were expected to stay in the house and only speak to their husband. She wanted to talk to people and be out of the house so the men all called her a tart, jailbait, or a tramp. Stereotyping is sadly still a thing that society uses to wrongfully put people into social
Indeed, Victorian women are molded into the socially calibrated model of The Looking-glass self, a structural theory in which Cooley proposes that people shape their identity largely based on their understanding of how other perceive them, and the social environment thus serves as the “mirror” that reflects desirable images of themselves. According to Cooley, the stages of The Looking-glass self involves imagining how one looks to others, imagining how other are judging her, and finally developing herself through such possible judgement. A hypothesis can be formed here, that Victorian women must develop this looking-glass self by concealing socially or individually unacceptable impulses from their consciousness. In the case of Clarissa, she represses her rather primitive sexual feelings toward Sally for fear of social judgement, and must construct an identity reflective of the feminine qualities desired by the society. But Clarissa’s looking-glass self is quite problematic, because it is only a manifestation of her attempt to repress real emotions. All forms of repression, according to Freud, cause disease within the mind and body— they will gradually boil inside the beings and finally explode. Interestingly, Clarissa never “explodes” her repressed feelings