Mean Girls Day 2 Recap

Cady wants to fight Regina after Regina betrayed her. However, Cady decides to act as if everything is fine and decides to secretly get revenge. What is Cady demonstrating here?

• Conformity - her goal and her actions are both socially acceptable

• Innovation - her goal is socially acceptable but her actions are not socially acceptable

• Retreatist - she decides to no longer be part of the Plastics

• Ritualist - she has given up on her goal and is going through the motions

Cady's difficulty maintaining friendships with the Plastics and Janis/Damian reflects which concept?

• Role conflict

• Role strain

• Resocialization

• Anticipatory socialization

Regina making people sign a petition about Janis being "obsessed with her" results in Janis experiencing what?

• Social influence

• Conformity

• Stigma

• Role conflict

Even though Gretchen is upset with Regina, she still does what Regina says. This illustrates which kind of conformity?

• Compliance - she is going along with what Regina says to avoid Regina being upset with her

• Identification - she wants to be part of the Plastics and gain acceptance from all of the other girls as well

• Internalization - she believes she deserves Regina being mad at her

Which role is associated with the status of being in the Plastics?

• Being good at math

• Being the center of attention

• Being able to relate to many groups of students

• Being involved in school activities