<![CDATA[Pamungkas, Dimas Probo. 2014. Learned Helplessness Encountered by Michael Oher in The Blind Side Movie. Study Program of English, Department of Languages and Literature, Faculty of Culture Studies, Universitas Brawijaya. Supervisor: Dyah Eko Hapsari;Co-supervisor: Sarlettina Vidyayani EkaKeywords: Learned Helplessness, African-American, Psychological, Social Behavior, Depression, The Blind Side.Social behavior shows several interactions between person and social situations, which stressed on how the person may behave accordingly to social values in a society. Behavior is really important in a person’s life especially in social context. Disturbances in family functioning, such as parental depression, severe marital conflict or divorce, death of a parent, or other disturbances are external factors that preserve abnormal behavior. Those conditions then form a person’s perspective of social behavior that the person preserves to be acceptable. Some of them who cannot fulfill the standards in very often case lead into learned helplessness. The Blind Side is one of the movies that show learned helplessness as an abnormal behavior. This movie was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, produced by Alcon Entertainment and released by Warner Bros in 2009, based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The Blind Side was a box-office success in 2009.The film itself also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The writer use social psychological approach by applying psychological theory which is combined with social behavior theory. In analyzing, the writer makes the main characters in the movie which is Michael Oher as the focus of research in order to reveal the helplessness in his life. Result of this thesis shows that, the helplessness encountered by Michael Oher triggered by continuity depressions by external factors. The inability to control the situation combined with depressions make him learned helplessness.]]>
