Common representations in Social Realism

Social Realism often focusses around different groups of people, such as teenagers and often middle-aged men and women. Teenagers are usually portrayed in a stereotypical manner in social realism, such as vandals or drug -users wearing scruffy clothing or looking like 'chavs'. Older women are often portrayed as being single parents, either being abusive or not being able to cope.

These are often traditional representation, as kids have alsways been seen as being trouble-makers or anti-social, however, women being portrayed as being single parents is quite modern, most likely because having children out of marriage isn't seen as consequential as it once was.