Peer power : preadolescent culture and identity /

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Author / Creator:	Adler, Patricia A.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1998.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Peer pressure in children -- United States. Social interaction in children -- United States. Interpersonal relations in children -- United States. Cliques (Sociology) -- United States. Children -- Social networks -- United States. Children -- Social networks. Cliques (Sociology) Interpersonal relations in children. Peer pressure in children. Social interaction in children. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11108166

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Other authors / contributors:	Adler, Peter, 1952-
ISBN:	0585172544 9780585172545 0813524598 0813524601 9780813524597 9780813524603
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Peer Power explodes existing myths about children's friendships, power, and popularity, and the gender chasm between elementary school boys and girls. Based on eight years of intensive insider participant observation in their own children's community, the authors discuss the vital components in the lives of preadolescents: popularity, friendships, cliques, social status, social isolation, loyalty, bullying, boy-girl relationships, and afterschool activities. They describe how friendships shift and change, how children are drawn into groups and excluded from them, how clique leaders maintain their power and popularity, and how the individuals' social experiences and feelings about themselves differ from the top of the pecking order to the bottom. The Adlers focus their attention on the peer culture of the children themselves and the way this culture extracts and modified elements from adult culture. Children's peer culture, as it is nourished in those spaces where grownups cannot penetrate, stands between individual children and the larger adult society. As such, it is a mediator and shaper, influencing the way children collectively interpret their surroundings and deal with the common problems they face. The Adlers explore some of the patterns that develop in this social space, noting both the differences in the gendered cultures of boys and girls and their overlap into afterschool activities, role behavior, romantic inclinations, and social stratification. Peer culture contains the informal social mechanisms through which children create their social order, determine their place and identity, and develop positive and negative feelings about themselves.
Other form:	Print version: Adler, Patricia A. Peer power. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1998 0813524598

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Parent-As-Researcher
Chapter 2. Popularity
Chapter 3. Clique Dynamics
Chapter 4. Clique Stratification
Chapter 5. After-School Activities
Chapter 6. Friendships: Close and Casual
Chapter 7. Friendships: Compartmentalized
Chapter 8. Cross-Gender Relations: The Early and Middle Years
Chapter 9. Cross-Gender Relations: The Later Years: Cross-Gender Relations: The Later Years
Chapter 10. Bringing It All Together
Notes
Refences
Index

Peer power : preadolescent culture and identity /

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