Failure And Successure : The Causes Of Peer Pressure

Peer pressure is defined as “influence from members of one's peer group” according to dictionary.com. To this day being popular or well liked is one of the biggest problems on high schoolers minds. Humans are creatures of habit. We seek to be well liked and to have lots of friends. When we are not invested in what someone we are interested in is, we often pretend to like it. Even going so far as to participate in certain things we would normally not. High school is often difficult for many young adults. We are trying to find where we fit in and who we really are. When one graduates high school, they often do not have the same friends that they started high school with. When I started high school I was struggling a lot with who I was. My mom had just moved to another state, I had just moved into a new house with my dad whom I had not lived with for years and I was about to start a new school with almost no friends. The first people who talked to me were the kids who looked like me. Dyed hair, wearing all black, and generally not very well liked. I was scared of the new world I was living in and would take any friends I could get. At first it was not so bad. They were nice to me and wanted to be my friend. Later in the year as we all became more comfortable they wanted to ditch class. I knew it was wrong so I told them to go without me. The more they skipped class and did other things without me, the more they stopped talking with me. They would go out and illegally smoke and

One form of peer pressure is negative peer pressure which is usually when someone tries to get another person to do

I believe that everything in this world have a 2 sides (Positive & Negative). It’s usually depends on the person how he want to deal with it. Peer Pressure can help us analyse ourselves in a totally different way. It can help us develop our personality into totally different person. We may be able to change ourselves for the betterment.

Peer pressure is the influence that one person or group has on another. Peer pressure is a devastating force that affects the lives of millions across the world. Most often, peer pressure receives a reputation for being demeaning, harsh, brutal, and generally negative. However, peer pressure can inspire the affected party to rise above the cruelty and positively impact their own lives. Yes, peer pressure may negatively affect someone’s life, but it may also change their life in a positive manner.

Growing up children will experience some form of peer pressure at some point in their live.Peer pressure is defined as the control and influence teenagers have over each other. Peer pressure can occur in many kinds of relationships. Becoming a member of a peer group is one of the immediate effects becoming a teenager.. Peer groups influence teenage society and identity by allowing young people to explore individual interests while retaining a sense of belonging and status within a group of friends.

The four short years that people spend in college can be some of the best years of their lives. Meeting new people, learning new things, and getting involved in clubs all contribute to this. Although these years can be great, they also have the ability to damage our lives forever. Many students fall victim to peer pressure, which occurs when a person or certain group of people tries to force an individual to conform to how that person or group acts. Peer pressure can affect college students physically, mentally, and socially. I feel as though this issue should be addressed much more when it comes to college life.

All of us have dealt with peer pressure in a time in our lives, whether it's from our parents, our friends or our enemies, it has put us in a position to fit in with others and feel part of the group. Peer pressure is the direct influence on people by peers and individuals who change their peer's minds to agree with others in fear, changing their response from being pressured. There are many reasons as to why people would change their opinions or behaviors such as conformity and obedience. They are some of the main points as too why we respond in the way we do with the people around us.

"Come on, you know you want to do it!" "You are such a loser, just do it already!" "Are you chicken?" Many of us will agree that these are familiar statements that we have either said or heard. Peer pressure is everywhere. Schools, jobs, sports, home, and life in general. Most of the peer pressure we face occurs in school when we are surrounded by our friends or people we are trying to fit in with. These encounters help shape us and can cause us to make difficult choices. It's through these difficult choices that we can either take a path of trouble and destruction or rise up and stand our ground. Everyone has to deal with peer pressure at some point and it’s how you deal with it that turns peer pressure into either a negative or a positive in your life. Even though there are times when peer pressure is positive, the majority of the peer pressure facing kids today has a negative effect and can lead them to extremes such as gang behavior or even sex.

Peer pressure consists of positive and negative interactions between adolescents resulting in a change of behavior. It can range from friendly competitions of getting good grades to negative behaviors resulting in drug use. Peer pressure not only can be bad peers may teach you good and it encourages you to follow them it is a constant daily issue in today’s youth.

I remember how happy it made my great grandma, Gigi, when we visited her. I remember how one day, my mom, dad, Grandma, my brother Holden and I were visiting her, and we thought would be nice if I sang a song for her. I sang her the song that they play during baseball games, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” because she always was a big baseball fan. I sang her the whole song, including all of the extended verses.When I finished, she was smiling, and that made me smile too. Whenever we went to my grandma Zeta’s house in Sacramento, we tried to go and see her. We would talk with her, or take her on a walk.

Peer Pressure: The social influence a peer group exerts on its individual members, as each member attempts to conform to the expectations of the group (The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition). Peer pressure causes individuals to want to please each other, so we follow others actions. Peer pressure dictates what decisions we make and bigger the crowd, the more pressure. The autobiographical short story, Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, explains this in finer detail. In the story Orwell exclaims, ¨It seemed to me that it would be a murder to shoot him¨ (137). Orwell was a peaceful man, driven by the insane, yellow faces of Burma. George Orwell’s original thought being it would not be human to shoot an elephant, but then was swapped around by the Burmese as he sweat at the thought of murdering such a creature.The decision was not easy for Orwell, but the ¨ever-growing army of people¨, decided for him (Orwell 136). Not individually deciding for self, is the part of evil nature.

Stop. Stand on a busy street and look up at the sky. Crowds will pass by, indifferent to what you are looking at. Now, bring in a friend to help and look up. Others will begin to stop and gaze up as well. According to Bruce Schechter, a writer for New Scientist, this situation is considered peer pressure in his article “Push Me, Pull Me: Put People Together and They Behave Like Atoms in a Magnet. Welcome to the New Physics of Peer Pressure”. Peer pressure is when someone or a group of people influences others to do an activity they typically wouldn’t do. When nearly all people hear the word peer pressure, their thoughts automatically jump to negative examples, such as drugs, alcohol, or bullying; however, peer pressure can have positive effects as well, such as in education and pushing people to explore new, exciting situations in their life.

Everyone has experienced peer pressure at least once in their life. Many people give into peer pressure to fit in. Peer pressure is used to get people to do certain things. They do this so that they feel like their popular and are liked by others. They dread being outsiders and treated differently for it. The individuals being pressured will often give in and do anything. This is really common among younger people due to there being social groups.

In the case of peer pressure, a person is convinced to do something (such as illegal drugs) which they might not want to do, but which they perceive as "necessary" to keep a positive relationship with other people, such as their friends. Conformity from peer pressure generally results from identification within the group members, or from compliance of some members to appease others.

Teenagers feel peer pressure everyday in their lives, whether in school or out in the town. During teenage years, kids in school differentiate themselves from their parents. Not only do teenagers give in to peer pressure, but also come up with unintelligent ideas at school. Thinking and feeling that their ideas are worth a million dollars. One of my friends in my math class at Spanish Fork Junior High came up with a careless idea that ended very reckless causing someone to get injured. When your friends come up with a crazy idea you need to keep in mind that consequences can occur if you give into peer pressure. Peer pressure not only has negative consequences, but also can have positive outcomes as well.