Monday, November 28, 2011
a Kissing Family, SNL skit
Thanksgiving with your parents. Very normal. Kissing your parents and brothers, not so normal. Sharing food from your mouth into others, not normal. The girl friend in this clip is repulsed by the family until she finds out why they are the way they are! Then she joins in on the strangeness.
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This video is a representation of the breaking of social norms and also how some behaviors that seem strange can become a normal ritual. We can see that the girl friend is very uncomfortable with the level of intimacy between the family members. The girl friend, along with a homeless man who stops by, play a part that allows the audience to relate with them. The audience feel as though it is very strange to kiss your family members in an intimate way. The girl friend, after being around the behavior for a period of time and getting the background story as to why the family behaves this way, soon accepts the behavior as her own. This episode shows how the breaking of social norms can be offensive to some people or attract others to adopt the behavior.
ReplyDeleteIt also demonstrates how norms are adopted.
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