01:830:333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peer Pressure

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:333
• Professor: Professor Mayhew

Document Summary

Class 13 - peer groups, peer influence, friends. Crowds contribute to definition of norms for e. g. clothing, leisure, tastes in music. Crowd is important influence on behavior, activities and self-concept (and identity) Crowd membership as predictor (breakfast club identities) Typically people of: same age, same race, same socioeconomic background, same sex at least during early and middle adolescence. Clique friendship clique membership factors: orientation toward school, orientation toward the teen culture, involvement in antisocial activity. The structure of cliques and crowds changes over time during adolescence: cliques merge & form larger mixed-sex groups, crowds become more differentiated, more permeable. These changes allow adolescents more freedom to change crowds, (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) enhance their status (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Less differentiated (two main groups the in-crowd and the out- crowd) (cid:1) More niches for people to fit into (cid:1)