Christopher Samayoa
Professor Robert Vance
Psychology 111-026
2 December 2014
The Breakfast Club The year is 2014. It continues to be evident that teenagers suffer from many different personality disorders. Many say that the hardest year of a person’s life tends to be their teenage years. A great film that displays students suffering from personality disorders is, The Breakfast Club. This movie is about five seemingly different teenagers in high school that all receive detention on a Saturday. Their mischievous behavior led them to be all together in the same room, on the same day. Interestingly enough, each of the students fit a particular stereotype, and many have the same characteristics. The only different aspect is how they express themselves.
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He does not have a strong family foundation, which explains his inappropriate behavior. Bender’s father was an alcoholic who had a bad temper. During Bender’s young years he would do many things that would enrage his father such as spill paint, and his father would burn his arms with cigarettes. Both parents would never acknowledge what John wanted or what he did. Due to these tragic events Bender developed an insecure attachment due to his parents never being by his side and supporting him. At school, he created this façade of a “bad boy” so people were scared of him and Throughout the movie he acts tough when speaking with others, but in reality all he wants is acceptance. He is a strong adolescent, who is self aware but all he is searching for acceptance from his peers, teachers and adults. At this age that is what most teens are struggling …show more content…
Borderline personality disorder is the instability of interpersonal relationships, emotions, and self image. People that are diagnosed with this disorder are people who take part in usually very impulsive behaviors and often times display self-injurious behaviors. If a person has this disorder their emotions and feelings fluctuate back and forth various times. Their fear or loss or rejection can lead to devastating effects in regards to their self-image, cognition and behavior. Borderline personality disorder is most present in the early adulthood stages of a person’s life. This explains why John Bender can be a good target for this disorder. This disorder is manifested in Bender’s behavior just by observing the way he acts. He is a character that does not really care. In the film Bender’s emotions fluctuate from a very nice person that wants to be friends with the students that are in detention with him to being extremely rude and nasty to them. He insults them and makes comments about their social groups. Impulsive disorders are manifested through his actions of smoking and having sex. During the movie Bender smokes marijuana and also speaks about sex a lot. These two aspects can be seen as potential impulsive behaviors. His fear of loss and rejection stems from his abusive parents, that never supported him in any decisions and burned him with cigarettes
The purpose of this paper is to analyze a movie and list five sociological concepts outlined in our textbook, Sociology A Down-To-Earth Approach, 6th edition by James M. Henslin, which was published by Pearson Education, Inc in 2015, 2013, and 2011. I have chosen the movie, “The Breakfast Club.” This is a 1985 movie directed by John Hughes. It is about five high school students that have detention on a Saturday for nine hours. The five students are played by, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall. These five students are deviant in their own particular ways and have different stereotypes. Eventually the students share personal information about their
The Breakfast Club is a film detailing a Saturday intention involving five very different students who are forced into each other’s company and somehow to share their stories. In the movie, The Breakfast Club we can see sociological issues such as high school cliques, stereotypes, and different forms of social interaction such as social sanctions, peer pressure. Throughout the film we can see the different characters are in conflict with each other, mostly because they come from different social and economic groups (rich, middle class and poor). The first principle seen in the film is a stigma, which is disapproval, attached to disobeying the expected norms so that a person
Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed.
The film, The Breakfast Club, introduces five students, each perceived with a different stereotype which is commonly found in American high schools.
The Breakfast Club demonstrates the interpersonal concepts “I-It” and “I-Thou” as it follows students whose immediate reaction is to treat each other as nothing more than the stereotypical person their titles assume them to be; however, as the film progresses and the characters begin to develop friendships, the characters abandon the stereotypes and begin to look at each other as individuals who have unique personalities and stories.
The first movie ever created was made by Louis Le Prince on October 14 in 1888, back then all movies were silent and the movie theatre was consider a simpler, cheaper way to entertain the masses. Since 1888 millions of movies have been made in every language and in every part of the world. Many of those movies have a connection with psychology and its theories, my favorite movie is The Breakfast Club which has a connection with the contact hypothesis of Gordon Allport. The Breakfast Club was made in 1985 and since then it has been used by various psychologist to explain psychology theories in a simple way.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder in which individuals display overall instability, major shifts in mood, unstable self-images or relationships, and impulsivity
One of these is normative social influences, this is “the influence others have on us because we want them to like us (King, 2013, p. 447). Andrew shows this when he talks about how he got in detention. Andrew states he bullied a kid, so the kid would think he was cool. You see that Andrew does this disgusting action to this kid so he could be seen as cool. Another social behavior that is seen in the film is the fundamental attribution error, which is observers overestimate the importance of the internal traits and underestimate the importance of external factors when explaining others behaviors. We see the fundamental attribution error a lot in this movie. First we see it with Brian, everyone sees him as smart. But when Brian explains that he failed shop class people were surprised; they never thought this kid would ever fail, since he is so smart. Another is with Bender, they see him as disrespectful and aggressive. What they do not know is, at home, he is being verbally and physically abused by his dad and has to defend himself. This can bring us to conformity, which is a change in a person’s behavior to get more closely with group standards. We see this with all five of the students. Let’s start with Andrew, he covers up his hatred for him father so he wouldn’t be seen as abnormal. Then you have Brian who talks about contemplating suicide for failing a class. He did not want to
In the film The Breakfast Club there are various social psychological theories and concepts that describe the inner selves of the characters. The characters in the film are initially perceived in a certain manner by each other because of knowing the way they behave in school and the type of people and environment they surround themselves with in school. However one detention on a Saturday brings these characters together and throughout the film their true personalities and behaviors start to reveal themselves by means of social psychological theories and concepts. The characters individually and as a group display their personalities through theories and concepts of social psychology. At the very start of the film, one of the concepts displayed is the acceptance type of conformity. The principal assigns the characters (students) to complete a task and because he is a figure of authority, the characters accept having to complete the task by the end of the day without any attempts to alter that. One of the students, Claire Standish, is revealed to display the concept of narcissism, which is unfortunately a dark side of herself. This is evident as Claire claims that she is popular and loved by her fellow schoolmates and seems to care and showcase her rich and beauty too much. She is, as her detention-mates discover, full of herself. In addition this also shows signs of the spotlight effect theory which can relate to Claire in that she believes that her schoolmates look at her and pay so much attention to her appearance add rich, spoiled-like behavior. Another character to show a theory of social psychology is Allison Reynolds. In the film, Allison is a character with an introvert personality, although she also displays strange and...
In the movie The Breakfast Club, five seemingly different adolescents are assigned Saturday detention where they learn that although they each fit a particular stereotype, they all have the same characteristics, but they are expressed differently because they have different experiences, strengths and weaknesses that makes them who they are. In the movie, Bender is the “criminal”, Brian is the “brain” and Allison is the “psychopath.” Each of their situations, strengths and weakness are similar to students that are in our classrooms currently or we may have in our classrooms in the future. For each student it is important to understand their learning differences and as a teacher, how I can use their strengths to help them become successful students.
Directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club is a film that portrays the social conflicts students face during high school. Set in Shermer, Illinois five students attend detention on a Saturday and are required to write an essay about themselves and “who they think they are” (The Breakfast Club). Over the length of the day the five students, who are all extremely different, become closer. They become closer by talking, breaking the rules, and standing up for each other. By the end of the movie the students have written one essay breaking the stereotypes they fit in to. These stereotypes they have received are, the “athlete,” “princess,” “criminal,” “brain,” and “basket case.” According to Kathryn Feltey and Jean-Anne Sutherland, “when stereotypes
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.
Five teenagers who don't' know each other spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. At first they squirm, fret and pick on each other. Then after sampling some marijuana, a real encounter session gets underway. The stresses and strains of adolescence have turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair.
These experiences often result in impulsive actions and unstable relationships. A person with BPD may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last from only a few hours to days”. (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml) I read that studies show that people with Borderline Personality Disorder have “structural and functional changes in the brain, especially in the areas that control impulses and emotional regulation”. (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml) People who suffer from BPD tend to have unstable moods which could last from anywhere from a few hours to even days. People with BPD also go through periods where they try to avoid real or imagined abandonment. People with this disorder are often impulsive and exhibit dangerous behaviors. These behaviors consist of going on shopping sprees having unsafe sex with people the use of various drugs and even as dangerous as reckless driving. People with BPD also have dangerous suicidal behaviors, and may also exhibit self-harming
According to Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan, and Bohus (2004) study borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a “mental disorder with a characteristic pervasive in affect regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships, and self-image” (pg. 453). The study (2004) concluded that the cause of borderline personality disorder is complex but that genetic factors and advers...