Babe Social Psychology

Social-Psychological Principles in “Babe” A little pig, Babe, begins his life in a factory farm that is very dark, and completely enclosed atmosphere where the social atmospheres comprise of only numerous pigs and machines. With this background, then, Babe immigrates to Farmer Hoggett's farm in the country from a distance to city. There are various kinds of animal species and entirely different living settings, so Babe should be adapted to a world where he has open activities, and liberty of getting along with animals of all sizes and shapes in the farm. There are several important characters to demonstrates social-psychological theories, who are the worrying murmuring duct Ferdinand, the Babe’s mom dog Fly, and the leader of the farm Rex.
Babe has his own culture of pig and put into a world where he is the only one of his species. In a wholly different location, Babe ought to learn the cultures, languages and new lifestyles of his fellow animals in the farm and also realizes the humans’ domination over the yarn. His duty is both to survive and represent his own unique nature. Even though Rex and other creatures do not like him, Babe has to conform himself to the new world by doing something, such as obedience or fight for the right. When conformity results from the idea that one is only in holding a specific viewpoint, many people will absolutely deny the plain evidence so as to make their answers acceptable to what everyone else is speaking (Hogan, 2001). Once Babe comes into the already formed society with group of members, he has to make a decision whether being obedient and conforming to the society or fighting against it. Hogan (2001) gives a possible answer to stop such tendency saying, “One should visibly dissent and refuse to
Additionally, according to the social-exchange theory, the reason why people help one another is that helping behavior benefits the giver as well as the receiver (Myers, 2012). Somehow, not because only for the benefits, but altruism actually is an action to help other people willingly, like Fly shows her love toward Babe and also Babe give her his love, not for paying back but for he really respects and adore Fly. And, when Fly's kids are set up for sale, Babe asks her if he can call her ‘Mom’, in the movie. Fly does everything for Babe. She persuades Rex to make Babe stay with her family, she helps Babe when he is struggling with herding the sheep, she gets injured because of protecting Babe while Rex is very aggressive to Babe, and lastly she becomes a mom to Babe. According to Pettersen, a mature carer is the one who is able to balance concerns of others and self in conditions that demand ethical decisions and resolutions (Hem, Halvorsen, & Nortvedt, 2014). As long as a mom, Fly, is a real carer for Babe, she is the only one who gives moral decisions and directions to Babe. When Babe is in trouble in a situation, when the sheep refuse to be herded by him, Fly does not give a normal instruction, such as insulting the sheep and threatening them, but she encourage Babe to use a different way, such as persuading and cherishing them to