...A clique can be defined as small, exclusive groups of friends who share common traits and interests. Cliques are generally developed in middle school and reach their peak by high school. As kids age and mature their social world expands and their parents have less control over the activities and actions the child does. In middle school preadolescents begin to develop a more advanced and complex relationship with other peers, acceptance and approval within become very important. When teenagers progress to high school these relationships become stronger and more important, in some cases this causes teens to struggle to comprehend where they fit in and who they are as a person. This beginning process of finding their own identity is a “critical component of healthy social development” says Mandel in his article Social Life in Middle and High School: dealing with cliques and bullies (1). Common cliques are called jocks, nerds, preppies, druggies, goth’s, and normal’s. Many studies show that a human’s personal identity is formed by the building blocks they develop from their cliques in school. The preadolescent and adolescent years are very crucial years in a human beings life and the choices the person makes during this time can severely impact who they are as a person. It is well recognized that relationships become increasingly important during adolescence. Close friends are more accepting than parents, who are necessarily more oriented toward the future and concerned with...
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...When people go and see a movie dealing with a high school or a college what is one of the first things that people notice? They will notice cliques between people. The different type of cliques will usually lay down a format of who the different characters are in the social standards of the school. There could be a group of athletes in one corner, a group of musicians in another corner, and a group of brainiacs at a table. They know there place in that high school by what they do around the school. The same can be said about people in the Middle Ages. The “cliques” as stated before were just as easy to point out. The Middle Ages were subdivided into three major classes: those who fought, who prayed, and who worked. They first major class of the Middle Ages was those who fought. These men were usually the ones with the most money that included the King, the Dukes, the Earls, the Barons, the Knights and the Esquires (Mortimer 40). The reason that most of the people that fought were also wealthy was because they would have to be wealthy to be able to afford all of the equipment used in fighting (Lecture). The most important fighter was the King. The title of those who fought was a little misleading for the king because he usually did not do most of the fight he was just a person that could pay for military expeditions. The next social tier was the three ranks of lords: the dukes, earls, and barons. These were men who had to fight directly for the king for at least forty days each...
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...STUDENT NUMBER : 51292254 MODULE : PYC4805 ASSIGNMENT : 01 UNIQUE NUMBER : 836372 DUE DATE : 15 APRIL 2016 QUESTION 1 - - Minds ability to control irrelevant stimuli to the task at hand. - Knowledge of Cognitive Capabilities Attentional Strategies Inhibition From infancy the ability to inhibit thoughts enhances. "By clearing unnecessary stimuli, inhibition increases available space in working memory." (Berk, 2013, p. 288). - Has 4 phases: 1. 2. 3. 4. - production deficiency control deficiency utilization deficiency effective strategy use - Children with attention, behaviour and learning problems suffer with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - - - “Gains in sustained attention depend on rapid growth of the prefrontal cortex, the capacity to generate increasingly complex play goals, and adult scaffolding of attention"(Berk, 2013, p. 316). 2 Vital Components - - ATTENTION - - - Rehearsal - information is constantly repeated until it becomes part of the working memory. Organization - way in which we process information and arrange them accordingly. - - - Knowledge & Sematic Memory Is declarative and involves storing information about the world and general knowledge in the long term memory. Memory strategies and extensive knowledge goes hand in hand. develops early Metacognitive knowledge therefore becomes more integrated and complex. Metacognitive Knowledge As children grow they become more conscious of their cognitive capacities and...
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...Cliques, Friendship & Dating Cliques As a teenager, having a social life takes major precedence in shaping other people’s perceptions of an identity or even the light that they see themselves in. Often times, people make judgements about a person's value based on the type of friends they have. Our friends are a great support system in such a transitional part of our lives. We laugh alongside them, as well as suffer losses together. Most times our friendships are a positive aspect of how we define ourselves, but when friends become exclusive, it can seriously hurt those being left out. A clique is a group of friends that excludes certain people in a purposeful manner. There may be one or two controlling members who influence the rest of the group. This type of peer pressure can cause people to act differently or behave in an uncharacteristic manner. These actions can stem from insecurities or the desire to gain popularity. People feel more powerful by putting others down, but deep down it doesn’t help to tear down the self-confidence and respect of another. (Coping With Cliques 2). Girls have a tendency to form cliques more frequently than boys, but all members of a social community are affected by this kind of behavior. Often times teens will feel trapped in a clique or be afraid that if they speak up to stop things, the group will turn on them next. They take a passive approach to the situation in order to avoid being a victim. However, there is no true sense of belonging...
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...The Christi Clique of Maryville Middle “Melissa, Kalli! Get over here! It’s time for my makeup check!” Christi said. “Coming!” The two girls said together. Christi pulled up her makeup checklist on her Mac laptop and started reading it out loud. “Mascara” “Check” “Lipstick” “Check” “Eyeliner” “Check” “Girls, let’s go, it’s time for your first day as 7th graders!” Christi’s Mom showed up on the flat screen TV mounted on Christi’s wall. Every room in the huge, luxurious, house had received a TV just like Christi’s as a Christmas present from Jose the butler. The TV’s allowed the Jackson family to talk to each other face to face anytime they wanted to. “Uugh! Mom, stop nagging us, we’re almost ready, gosh!” Christi whined to her mother. After the three girls were done perfecting each other they stepped to the elevator and rode downstairs. “I can’t believe we’re in 7th grade!” Melissa said. “Yeah I know, it seems like just last year we met in 1st grade,” Kalli replied. Christi could care less about being in 7th grade. She was more interested in Nicole Perry’s new makeover she had heard about. What if she’s prettier than us now, Christi thought to herself. “What if she thinks just because she’s pretty that she can join the Christi Clique?” “Oh well, it can’t be that bad.” Melissa, Kalli, and Christi stepped into the Cadillac Escalade, buckled their seat belts and started discussing the new year’s latest fashions. When the pearly...
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...Social cliques. This is a world renowned topic. Many children struggle to find what group they belong to. In high school, there are many social groups, some of which are unique, but also frightening or just awkward. Some examples of social groups are the hipsters, jocks, nerds, geeks, and the “Artsy” group. These are just a couple of groups, there are tons more. In this article, I will be talking about Social groups in a young adolescent’s life and the different ways that they need their groups. High school can be gruesome. In high school, young adolescents are finding who they truly are but nevertheless where they belong in the world. “In the high school adolescent years, peer relationships become even more critical.(Source 1)” This means...
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...“The Sandlot” accurately portrays the role of peers in adolescence by the main character, Scotty, who is transformed by those he hangs-out with. For example, Scotty had never chewed tobacco or even knew what it was until it was introduced to him by his peers. The influence of his peers and the absence of knowledge from his parents caused him to fall to peer pressure and chew tobacco. Scotty’s group of friends would be considered a clique because they excluded others from joining unless approved by the entire group. Also, there was a specific leader of the group of friends in “The Sandlot” named Benjamin Rodriguez, this is another defining feature of a clique. Finally, because the group of friends only hung out with each other and did not associate with other groups, this marked them as being a clique. It is important that young people associate with the right people because studies show that the people you hangout with will be the same characteristics that you adapt. Cliques are a part of growing up and is typically seen among middle and high school aged students, the immaturity of being exclusive and non-inclusive will dissipate throughout life, in most cases. It is important to choose friends...
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...Mean Girls is an iconic movie that hit theaters in 2004 and is referenced all around the world. The movie is placed in a cliché high school setting where a new girl joins the “popular clique” to secretly scheme behind their backs and ruin their control over the school. She had never been to public school before and was putting her best foot forward to fit in. This is a prime example of a typical teenage crisis, which is fitting in while maintaining your true character and labeling fake friends during the teenage years of life. The search for friendship begins around the age of thirteen because this is age of middle school. Middle school is usually the easiest years of being a teenager due to the fact that everyone is new to the school so they act normal. However, everyone eventually adjusts to the new environment along with the responsibilities and the competition to make friends begins. The...
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...Woodlands Academy High Schools most popular girl, Dylan has it all. Popularity, friends, designer everything, the grades and a hot boyfriend but none of that matters to her as much as winning blossom queen. Josh on the other hand is a film geek and decides to make a film about popularity in order to win a spot on a Hollywood film camp. After saving Dylan’s purse submerged in water, Josh offer Dylan a spot in his film and what better publicity for blossom queen is there than to star in a movie? Both Dylan and Josh come from two completely different social groups and Josh is convinced that there is no way there is more to Dylan than meets the eye, but that’s where he is wrong. Josh learns that popularity is more complicated than he thought. High...
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...Tziporah Nockenofsky, 337655518 The Meaning of Meanness: Popularity, Competition, and Conflict among Junior High School Girls Don E. Merten In this qualitative research paper, Merten examines the sociocultural construct of meanness, more specifically how competition for popularity influenced a group of girls in junior high to be blatantly mean to one another. The goal is to understand why meanness was considered acceptable and didn’t threaten the girls’ popularity and perhaps more importantly, to understand the mixture of social and cultural factors that exist behind this cluster of behaviors. Merten approaches the issue of meanness not because of a deficiency in existing field research but in order to focus on the relationship between competition for popularity and meanness. The clique he researched had become so embroiled in their mean spirited behaviors, they acquired a reputation of being the meanest girls in the school. Merten concentrates on analyzing the complicated factors that led to such a social reality. In earlier research of competition and its effects on human relationships, researchers worked from the suspicion that women were by nature less competitive than men. Females were found to prefer to use verbal strategies to diffuse personal conflict rather than confront any open competition. Eventually it...
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...Lefkowitz, is a very dynamic story about the heinous actions of a dozen middle-class athletes from a small New York suburb against a defenseless mentally handicapped girl. Lefkowitz describes a brutal gang rape involving a baseball bat and broom handle which took place in this unsuspecting town, by these upstanding young group of boys, as the town would describe them. Lefkowitz looks at the incident which took place and then examines the “jock clique” sub-culture that allowed such atrocities to happen, and spawned the scandal to cover it up. Lefkowitz uses the qualitative method in his account of what occurred in Glen Ridge, New jersey. This method is a sociological method that is carried out to study a group of people without a survey. He did use the appropriate methodology to accomplish his goals in telling his story because the town of Glen ridge not much different from any other suburban American town. Like most towns it has its “cliques” and the “jocks” are at the pinnacle of the town. Idolized by the students and a source of pride for the entire town the Glen ridge boys were not like most high school athletes. The “Jock clique” formed at a very early age, and invaded their surroundings taking over where ever they went, whether it be school, games or around town, protected by the “boys will be boys” attitude held by the rest of the town. The boys started showing signs of deviance as early as elementary school, with a common ignorance for authority, and their parent refuse to...
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...Conflict versus Peacemaking in the School Systems War versus Peace War and peace, people have heard this phrase from such things as movies, marriages, sports figures and owners, union workers and employers. Because conflict generally involves two or more parties, each person tries to find the balance between the conflict and the solution in order to find the peace he or she seeks. There is a fine line between conflict and peace. For individuals looking to find peace sometimes it takes a conflict to open his or her eyes to a solution for the problem. What is a conflict? For there to be a conflict there has to be some type of situation that each party does not agree upon. This results in the conflict. One person may view the situation one way while the other individual has a completely different view of the situation. Meeting in the middle is where each individual needs to meet but sometimes that is easier said than done. Finding a solution becomes the main focus when people have conflicts with one another. Individuals on each side of the conflict do not want to give in because they feel as if this is a submission of failure or loss of their own goals. According to Myers (2010), “People in conflict perceive that one side’s gain is the other’s loss:” (pg. 483). What is Peacemaking? Peacemaking starts with a compromise where each person experiencing the conflict can reach the goal or action he or she is trying to reach. Peace is achieved by each individual analyzing...
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...FINAL ESSAY Your name Course Name Date 1. Describe the major hormonal changes that occur during adolescence. Describe girls’ reactions to menarche and boys’ reactions to spermarche during puberty. What factors influence the way adolescents respond? Describe the impact of puberty on parent–child interaction and the adaptive value of this change in adolescents’ relationships with their parents. Hormonal change is at its peak during adolescence and is a period of rapid psychological and physiological transformation. During puberty boys and girls sweat and their oil glands become more active. This will result in body odour and acne. They also get underarm and pubic hair in the body. The brain releases Gonadotropin – releasing hormone (GnRH) for stimulating pituitary gland. Pituitary gland is also known as the Master gland releases luteinizing hormones and follicle stimulating hormone. In boys, interstitial cell stimulating hormone and it stimulates interstitial cells to produce to from hormones in male organ of testicles. Both male and females have estrogens and androgen in their body in low level and after puberty, males begin to have more androgen including testosterone. In female they get more oestrogen as puberty crosses. Menarche is the first menstrual bleeding in a girl and her reaction to this event can be both emotional and physical. It is a sign of growing up and happens between the age of 9 and 15 years. The girls usually show stress, irritability and...
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...Mean Girls is a film about an adolescent foreign student, Cady, who moves from Africa to a suburban area in Illinois (Lorne, Shimkin, & Waters, 2004). Consequently, she had to give up homeschooling. Cady is introduced to a typical, public high school full of cliques, which makes her question her individuality in terms of popularity. After befriending two outcasts, she ironically is drawn to the “plastics” – a group of domineering, popular girls. Cady is persuaded by her two unpopular friends to falsify a friendship with the plastics in order to reveal their deepest secrets and ultimately destroy their clique. Unfortunately, Cady ends up becoming one of the plastics herself, which causes her to lose connections with both cliques. Cady...
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...Brandon Matott Violence in Hockey High school is a time filled with drastic change and many choices to be made. During this time, many students will choose to play a high school sport, a very popular one being ice hockey. It’s no secret that hockey is a physical sport, and this is why many teenage boys are attracted to it. Typically though, a student who chooses to play ice hockey at the high school level is not new to the game. In most cases they began the game at an age of any where from 5 to 9, and soon after started participating in travel leagues that compete in as many as 100 games per season (Burge). As a direct result of the intense lifestyle players are forced to adapt to at such a young age, one of two things will happen; either a ‘burnout’ occurs and a total loss of interest for the sport takes over, or an intense life-long love for it develops (Burge); this love is often shared with parents and fans as well. As a player matures and begins to play in more high-caliber leagues, the physicality and hectic atmosphere of the games increase. This, like any physical sport does often present the scenario of fisticuffs and other unnecessary violence, but it has been confirmed that hockey does have the most fights out of any major sport (SingerNet). While teams frequently are involved in violence on the ice, it is not completely unheard of to hear of fans participating in violence in the stands as well; especially in non professional levels of hockey where a large majority...
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