Chavis 'Symbolic Interactions In The Film'

The scene in the movie that displays a great example of symbolic interaction is when Chavis hits one of his teammates while the football team is preparing to watch film before their next game. This event all started to what appeared in my eyes as such an immature act, when both Chavis and his teammate became angry from their elbows touching on an armrest in the school auditorium. To the normal person this may seem like something that wouldn’t result in a physical altercation but coming up from in an urban, crime ridden area such an event could be the symbol of masculinity. In order to not seem inferior to his fellow teammate he needed to display his sense of masculine dominance. Chavis only reflected the attitudes and norms from the society