Prosocial and Anti Social Behaviour as demonstrated on Summer Heights High

I am sure some of you may be aware of the ABC comedy Summer Heights High. For those of you who don't it is a comedy created by comedian Chris Lilley based on a fictional high school and it basically revolves around three main charaters. Ja'imee (ja-may) King, Jonah Takelau and Mr G, the drama teacher. It airs on wednesday nights and can be downloaded from the ABC website: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/summerheightshigh/#home. These characters are of course fictional and are overly steroetypical which I think is the creators point.

Anyway, the reason I mention this show is that during the lecture on Prosocial behaviour I tried to think of some examples of pro and anti social behaviour and this show seemed to pop into my head as having some very pertinent examples, not to mention funny ones. The three main characters also make it easy to present clear examples of pro and anti social behaviour.

Take for example Ja'imee. She is the resident private school girl on exchange at the dingy public school. She seems to be displaying prosocial behaviour in episode 5 as she wants to organise a yr 11 formal for the benefit of her class mates. She seems to be displaying altruistic behaviour as she wants her classmates to have some fun and she is willing to put in the work to organise venues and dj's and fundraisers. The outcome though, is that the tickets work out to be $450, which suits her budget, and she has ulterior, selfish motives. She wants a formal so everyone can see how cool she is, and to be the coolest person at the formal, she invites a hot lesbian as her date, so she will be cooler than her friend who is taking a guy in a wheelchair.

So, is Ja'imee pro or anti social?
She does appear to be helping others, or she thinks she is as people who hang around her become cooler.
However, due to her ulterior motives, I dont honestly think that is why she is organising the formal.
She disobeys the rules as set out be her year advisor. He originally does not agree to the formal, but she threatens to kill herself so he relents.
Ja'imee certainly does not conform to socially acceptable behaviour as she organises a fundraiser for "AIDS" yet what she really wants the money for is to pay for the DJ. I dont think this is socially acceptabe behaviour as she is cheating people out of their money.
She does demonstrate some prosocial behaviour in that she attempts to cooperate with others, yet the only other people she will cooperate with are the hot people at the school. All other people (teachers, boys, non-hot people) she manipulates to get her own way.
So, overall, I would say Ja'imee is a good example of anti-social behaviour, as defined in the lecture notes anyway...

Another good example is Jonah Takelau, the resident break dancing polynesian.
In short, he has a temper and is much like Ja'imee. He has behavioural and learning problems and as such has a contract written up between him, his teachers and the guidance counsellor. He continually breaks these rules, and partakes in socially unacceptable behaviour, such as asking his female english teacher if she is on her period and taking a mobile phone picture of his rear end and sending it to his guidance counsellor. He also accuses his dad of molesing him to get out of doing an english report.
He demonstrates conflict with a yr 7 rival breakdancer and they continually clash throughout the series.
Again, Jonah is a prime example of anti-social behaviour.

Mr G is a mixed bag in relation to his behaviour. He is hell-bent on providing a great drama production for the end of year show. However, his original subject matter was quite touchy. You may have seen the news regarding the Annabelle ecstasy story, this storyline was changed to become a Mr G production. So the show predominately revolves around Mr G and his school experienes.
He does exhibit some prosocial behaviours as he does try to cooperate with others, however, it usually ends in tears as he does have verrrrry little give in his thought patterns. He is trying to help others as he wants to put together a great production and help the kids he has chosen to do just that.
However, he does not appear to be behaving in socially acceptable ways as he is trying to capatilize on the death of a schoolgirl.
Thus, he too appears to have a touch of the anti social behaviour about him

All in all, I hope this makes a bit of sense of what pro and anti social behaviour is, even though these are greatly exaggerated examples. I thought I would try to make it a little fun and I would recommend watching the show if you havent seen it, just keep an open mind as it is not intended to be at all serious.

If you want to add any comments or examples, feel free.
Thanks guys.