Being Simply Contrary To Be Cool And Popular Thing

Between grades one through six, which is approximately 6 years of age to eleven years of age, children place priority and importance of popularity, which increases over the elementary school years, this reaches its peak in late middle school and in the early high school years. Studies show that children in grades one through four consider popularity more important than friendship. It was also found that early and middle adolescents generally place more emphasis on conforming and being part of a popular group than younger or older children do. The low-status group, which hope for acceptance into the high-status groups may get some attention, however, rarely do they obtain full acceptance. Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Bandura, and Kohlberg all have theories that address the

For many years, girls have been bullying other girls. However, this bullying isn’t usually physical like the type of bullying seen in boys. Girls tend to bully each other through types of alternative aggression. These alternative aggressions are invisible to most, except by the bully and the victim. Along with alternative aggression, girls use relational aggression to bully one another. They ruin each other’s social statuses, sometimes to raise their own. Girl bullies are sneaky, they find ways to avoid confrontation. These girls will cyberbully and gang up on someone with other girls. Girls know how to sneak around and have awful outcomes.

Popularity is one of the most commonly studied peer interaction phenomenon. Initially these studies assigned participants to one of the following standard sociometric categories: popular, rejected, neglected, average, and controversial. These studies faded away for two main reasons. The first is that this model neglected to take the school structure into consideration when studying popularity. It ignored that due to the transition between classes starting in middle school students no longer have a small and stable social component that social interactions and sociometric status could be based on. The second is that popularity depends on the adolescents’ perception of popularity rather than how well liked an adolescent is. Popularity heavily depends on the

According to this article “ kids who were popular, but not the most popular, were most likely to bully others.” or “the top two percent perhaps because they no longer feel the need to put others down to improve their own status.” Basically this quote means that most of the popular kids are live under pressure of popularity. This is important is because we all have our own stereotype even without noticing. We might asking how is thinking teenage bullies are bad is stereotype? Well, as long as people read the question above you might seem where are the problems. Nevertheless, people all young once, and we all used to be a stupid. Sometimes people judging others without thinking, and that’s why people can easily make a mistake. On the top of that, teenage bullies are the same. They

Middle school was the point in every middle scholar’s life to find a group where they fit in. These groups were called cliques, a group centered around gossiping about others and even gossiping about one another in the group. In middle school this group became your community. The group you do everything with and told everything to. This group is almost like your other family. Sadly, this community, the people you surround yourself with can lead to negative thinking about others. Your community can easily persuade your actions and thoughts because the people you surround yourself with have such a big influence on your life.

If a high school girl can claim they have never been bullied or saw a bullying interaction, they are lying. World wide, girls have to live up to people's standards on how to be so called “perfect”. Many stories and magazines have had stories about girls living up to being perfect. In the movie Mean Girls, girls can relate to the characters and think of situations that happen in their own schools. Girl bullying is also portrayed in the novel Speak. Melinda, the main character, was bullied her entire freshman year of high school because she called the cops at one party. In real life and in both these narratives, the authors use situation from high school to show how bullying is growing more than we realize.

The book The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth is a book that everyone should read at one point or be taught from in school. It explains school cliques, high school emotions, popularity, and outcast life. The author, Alexandra Robbins, studied many years, about a decade, for this novel to come to life. Throughout her words, she explains that outcasts, whether they are nerds, punks, losers, loners, “tree huggers,” math geeks, band members, etc, are the future of our world. I agree with her when she says that the qualities that people exclude for in school help individuals exceed in life.

Do filmmakers depict teenage girls as the only bullies? A film, Mean Girls, is one of the many movies that have misconstrued teenage bullying. Mean Girls is about three white-upper class, popular girls that bully a lower class “nice” girl. Other films, such as A Cinderella Story, and Bring it On have added fuel to the fire. Filmmakers portray bullying by stereotyping, and giving a false representation of bullying.

The fact that the students in this movie actually become friends at the end shows that when looking at this situation from a sociological view, it can be said that cliques are not always what defines people. Cliques can be a negative and a positive thing. Obviously the negatives to cliques are that people get labeled into stereotypes which can be hurtful to some, and that people isolate themselves from other peers that are not in the clique. Positives of cliques can be that the people in the group have a sense of belonging, support from their friends during tough times, and also have a form of identity.

Bullying is an emerging issue that many teenagers and children experience, they endure harassing behaviours from their peers, primarily at school. Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters and Bully, directed by Lee Hirsch are both effective in their own ways, as they display the causes and effects of being taunted. Although there are many similarities in the messages of the films, they differ in delivery. Mean Girls shows a less conspicuous perspective of bullying, on the other hand, Bully educates the more expected definition.

Peer Pressure High school is stressful. People care about how they look and being “cool” so that they don't get bullied. Melinda in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson walked into her first year of high school with family discord and no friends (except for her pseudo-friend Heather). She was a popular girl in middle school but, after being sexually assaulted at a party and calling the police, no one would talk to her let alone be her friend.

I noticed that two of the articles were opposing in the argument of the façade that popularity gives people. The character traits listed in “The Popular Girl” gave the archetype a mythical well rounded sense of being. She is cool and affluent in any social context with “fine sympathy and wide understanding” (“The Popular Girl”) for anyone that crosses path with her. The girl can blend with others, but still keep a unique sparkle about her. I believe that although that is most desirable, it is not very realistic. Humans are awkward and clumsy. We can try to please everyone with our personality, but inevitably we will come across someone who does not like us. The article “Making Aim of Popularity is Disillusioning” by Doris Blake points out the

To most kids in high school, social status and physical appearance are everything. A kid doesn’t necessarily have to be the most attractive person in the school to be considered popular, but sadly it seems to help amongst the more superficially minded teenagers. The jocks are seen as the “top dogs” of the school, due to their athletic physique and luck when it comes to dating. Cheerleaders are considered “the perfect, most beautiful” girls in the entire school, and some of them believe that makes them better than everyone else. I was viewed as a loser when I first moved to Plano, Texas. I had a chili bowl haircut, large glasses, and a thick west Texas accent. I also had a lot of friends who enjoyed playing video games and daydreaming about

Bullying can be hard to define, because research has shown that it comes in many forms which makes it difficult to find one set of characteristics that will describe a bully. Conclusively, studies have defined bullying as a set of repeated aggressive behavior that is intended to harm someone, which usually involves an imbalance of power between the victim and the perpetrator (Morgan, 2012, p. 174). Studies have shown that there are two distinct types of bullying, which is a direct form of verbal and physical aggression, and indirect, which often results in name calling, rumors and exclusion (Aluedse, 2006, p. 38). This form of peer victimization can have devastating effects on a child 's academic work and their physical and psychological well being (Limber, 2003, p. 23). In terms of gender, boys are more likely to be involved in physical bullying (direct) as for girls are more likely to be involved in indirect bullying (Wang et al, 2009, p. 371). Previous research indicates, that parents and friends are two important factors of social interaction associated with bullying and victimization among adolescences. Bullying is quite common among middle school children, because it is during this time that children go through puberty and hormonal changes. During this time students are looking to be accepted and fit into a specific group; however, when there is a lack of acceptance and esteem due to victimization, this can cause children to isolate themselves from those around them

Popularity can also have some benefits. Being socially stable can help with getting a job and the popular kids are all kids who are socially stable. The social outcasts are the ones who don’t know how to adapt to different social climates so it might be harder for them to be a considered employee at an interview. Someone who is socially stable will be comfortable enough to be friendly and outgoing at an interview, which is an attractive quality for most jobs. (Tugend) However, not all unpopular kids are unsocial. There are plenty of well rounded and friendly people who don’t fit in. Sometimes people forget that the “populars” and the “losers” only make up a small percentage of the school’s population and that the majority of the people in schools are just average. They have no specific class. Sometimes they even bounce back and forth between them, which I believe is more socially stable than a group of kids who will only interact with a couple kids that fit in more because they know how to act around a multitude of different personality types. They can’t be popular though because kings and queens can’t be associated with peasants. This is demonstrated in the movie Mean Girls which is about a