The group that I have chosen to identify with is the F&M Dance Company. The company is comprised of over fifty dancers and is supervised by three authoritative professors. Each fall, new choreographers are recruited by the company to teach their choreographies, or reconstruction works of other choreographers, for the Fall Dance Concert. Each spring, the students have the opportunity to choreograph a piece for the Spring Dance Concert. These student choreographed pieces are then either presented in the concert, which is what most choreographer strive for, or in the show case, which is only held on a Sunday. Due to this either/or situation, the choreographers contend with each other to secure a spot in the concert, therefore galvanizing competition, …show more content…
The main reason for this animosity is the existence of the two departments in the same facility. Since, Roschel and Mayser are part of the same building, there is this presence of an invisible line which serves as a hostile boundary between two departments. Additionally, the dance department and the athletic department solidify exclusion through out group subjugation. In both departments, the solidarity and the social meanings shared within the groups are devalued by the other group. For example, most of the athletes profess that dance is not considered a sport and does not involve as much rigor. Consequently, the demands of the dancers are positioned subservient to those of the athletes. Therefore, we are labeled as unimportant and extraneous space inhabitants by the athletes, however we refuse to internalize these behaviors, unlike the women with eating disorders who internalized their labels as secondary deviance (McLorg and Taub, 1987). Some athletes in the athletic department are incapable of acknowledging dancers as similar entities, even though dancing is universally considered a sport. It requires great demand rigor, energy, stamina, attentiveness, and …show more content…
Although there exists tension and unnecessary intergroup and intragroup competition, we still manage to preserve a sense of unity and harmony during the annual fall/ spring dance concert hosted by the F&M dance company. During these two concerts, each dancer in the company shapes the success of the concerts. We welcome concerted actions, through sharing and accumulating diverse ideas from each individual, even from those individuals given a more subordinate social stance to augment the final outcome. The concerted actions include listening to other dancers, sharing ideas about movements, and working as a cohesive societal group instead of a disjointed societal group, like the prisoners in the Stanford prison experiment who severed from the shortage of solidarity (Haney et al., 1973). As an outsider, the dance company may at times seem too clique, but cliques only predominate a small portion of the company. We occupy a diverse group of students with diverse minds who each year aid the company with fresh new ideas to substantiate the final