Remember the Titans is a movie that takes place in Alexandria, VA, where the integration of civil rights laws is just beginning.

this effort. Upon returning from camp, this bond that the team has forged is tested time and time again by the school and the community of Alexandria. The two coaches, after overcoming their differences, help the football team to better itself through their coaching and role modeling. They carry on together as a team, players and coaches, and they eventually win the State Championship, even through a great tragedy.Racism is a prime influence in this film. It is a recurring theme and it has shown to be a difficult, but not impossible, thing to overcome. Through the white players and families eyes, the racism is toward an intrusion of black people on what had always traditionally been theirs to control. They first lose their own school, and then, their beloved Hall of Fame football coach is demoted and replaced by a new black coach. At first they fight it, which is shown, quite obviously, when the brick is thrown through one of Coach Boones’ windows. The white parents’ racism is shown thoroughly when they fight the bus transportation to school and white students racism is shown when they fight during school because they believe that they are more superior to the blacks.Another view of racism is through the black players eyes. At first, they keep to themselves and only care about themselves, specifically Julius. At camp, Gerry calls Julius out on this and from that point it starts a friendship that continues to grow through the story. Also, the black players have to move schools too, so they aren’t the only ones being thrust into a new environment that is full of hostility. The team shows how the factor of racism can be overcome by overlooking each other’s differences and excepting each other’s faults. Julius says during half time of the State Championship game that none of the players are perfect, but the team is perfect. He says that as a team, perfection is there and that’s how they should play.The realistic conflict theory is most evident near the beginning of Remember the Titans, when the white players are worrying about their starting positions and playing time. These starting positions are the limited resources that the black and white players have to fight over. At first, some of the white players don’t block for a black player, just to make the black player look bad. It was a way for them to help secure a starting spot for a white player. It caused conflicts between the players, and Gerry and Julius had to try and straighten things out. They set the tone by competing with respect for the other players on the field.The black players also had to deal with losing starting positions. The team is looked on as a white team with black players intruding on it, because of the racism shown in the movie, but in reality it can be looked at the other way around. The black players had starting spots at their old school and they entirely intended on keeping their spots. It would have been made much more difficult if they had continued to play for themselves, instead of playing as a team. The realistic conflict theory is confirmed when the players step on the field and compete with each other. Although later in the movie, the competitions are turned, instead of for starting spots, into making the individuals better and, thus, making the team better as a whole.Conformity is evident in so many ways in Remember the Titans. First there is the white community and the black community. Next, are the white players and the black players. Then, even the white coaches and the black coaches show conformity amongst each other. All of the white players are racist and they conform together at the beginning of the movie. The same can be said of the black players and how they tend to stick together with each other. In the end, the players all conform to form one team that is perfect. The players find the right attitudes to conform into the team. Attitudes and actions all help with conformity. The team showed conformity specifically when they released their new warm-up. They all decided and conformed together to warm-up with the dancing and chanting and it stuck with them. This shows that, at first, conformity can cause problems by helping with discrimination or segregation, but in the end, conformity can bring a community together under one purpose.Remember the Titans shows multiple aspects of social behavior through the social-psychological principles of racism, the realistic conflict theory, and conformity. Social behavior, though varying at the start of the movie, changes dramatically through different process of the social-psychological principles and turns out for the better.