Social Penetration Theory in The Breakfast Club The Social Penetration Theory‚ adapted by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor‚ is based on the idea that people are layered like onions‚ (Griffin 133). These layers are made up by different things that hide an individual’s true self. One’s true self can include his or her hopes‚ fears‚ likes‚ dislikes‚ aspirations and other things that one thinks about. For individuals to become close‚ they must get past all of the facades and disclose their true
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Founder of the theory The founders of the theory were Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor. Altman is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Utah whereby Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas‚ Arlington. Altman and Taylor developed this theory to provide an understanding of the closeness between two individuals. Apparently‚ social penetration is defined as a process that moves a relationship from non-intimate to intimate. The theory states that this
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Social Penetration Theory Social penetration theory‚ also known as the ‘Onion Theory’‚ was a theory formulated by professors Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor on 1973 on the development of interpersonal relationship. The social penetration theory states that as relationships develop‚ communication moves from relatively shallow‚ non-intimate levels to deeper‚ more personal ones. It mainly concentrates on the development and degree of self-disclosure‚ voluntary act of revealing or sharing of oneself
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The Breakfast Club Reaction Paper The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film based on five students from entirely different social groups forced to spend an eight hour Saturday detention together for their own individual reasons. The five students were all given the same assignment‚ to write an essay about “who you think you are" and the acts they committed to end up in Saturday detention. As high school students of course they put off the assignment until the last minute and instead they passed the hours
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I have seen the breakfast club three times before taking this class and then saw it for a fourth time during class and I must say that it is defiantly one of my favourite movies. Before this class‚ I loved it because it was a fun movie depicting teenage school life in its simplest form and it was more or less something I could relate to. I noticed only the funny quotes; close calls and random scenes that made me say “Ha! It’s funny because it’s true.” Such as the scene where all the characters are
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The Breakfast Club related to social health in many ways. Different aspects of social health appear throughout the movie. For example the characters were from different types of homes‚ communicated/acted differently‚ and formed different relationships. Each character in the movie communicated in different ways. For example‚Claire and Brian communicated completely different. Claire was blunt and had no problem saying what was on her mind but Brian on the other hand always thought before he spoke
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Brittany Ochs April 11‚ 2013 Sociology Breakfast Club “Jock”‚ “prep”‚ “loser”‚ “geek”‚ “criminal”‚ “ popular”‚ are just a few labels of teenagers that are used everyday by outsiders who judge them without looking skin deep. In the matter of stereotyping‚ some may perceive it as being the base of an identity in the view of society. Stereotyping is categorized and used as a positive view. As opposed to the film The Breakfast Club‚ that creates a more negative input on stereotyping. Peer
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Stereotype/prejudice pg. 309 -Brian fundamental attribution error - Bender agression- displacement- pg. 360 - Andrew The Breakfast Club- Social Psychology The Breakfast Club is a dramatic film by John Hughes from 1985. The story takes place in the library at Shermer high school in Illinois. The movie records‚ five students from very different cliques as they spend an all day Saturday detention with one another under the supervision of a very forbidding principal. This movie is unique because it
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the film The Breakfast Club‚ written by John Hughes‚ that creates a more negative input on stereotyping. Berne’s uses a theory of basic human types as an example of a scientific subject made for nonscientists‚ where in the article he breaks down categories of people’s appearances to help them reflect on their own personalities. On the other hand‚ Hughes engages in a different theory of how to let people recognize stereotyping by giving a different perspective of it. In The Breakfast Club Berne’s lets
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The Breakfast Club (1985) The Breakfast Club was released in February 1985. There is a least six main characters in this film they are known as the “brat pack” we have Molly Ringwald as “Claire Standish” is a pretty‚ popular‚ and a spoiled princess. Judd Nelson as “John Bender” is the bad boy‚ does not have a care in the world‚ and a criminal. Emilio Estevez as “Andrew Clark” he is the stuck up jock‚ the athlete‚ who has a soft side. Then we have Ally Sheedy as “Allison Reynolds” who plays a recluse
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