High School Cliques

In high school surviving is the hardest things to do, when anyone first come there. The best thing to do is finding a clique of people and join them. Finding different cliques are not that hard, but knowing who they are and adapting the environment is one of the hardest thing to do in high school. Finding a wrong clique can lead anyone straight down to a life of hell or worse. Students who entering high school can identify the types of cliques of student are in, and join up with whatever cliques that their find is good for them.

Jack was a boy who wanted to fit in with everybody in school. It took him awhile to understand that cliques begin in middle school. Realizing that he got labeled as “nerd” for reading books and having glasses, he decided to change his appearance. Jack stated, “I figured if I wore clothes that were more like everyone else’s I could pass for cool, or at least not be made fun of” (Garrod, 2012, p. 180). Along with the wardrobe change, he also convinced his parents to let him use contact lens’ and went to the dentist to fix his yellow patched teeth. Jack noticed how his peers picked on him during school. Even if he thought someone was his friends he knew if he did something they did not approve of, they would turn their back on him. He did not

Discrimination and racism were widespread and many gave no second thought of it. Now, we strive to see that neither are tolerated. Students are aware of what discrimination is, and they know how bad it is. A student from the past may have been very shocked to realize how discrimination felt, from lack of experience. Times have changed, and people are more socially aware. Schools are also more diverse and contain students from many races and ethnicities. If Jane’s experiment was conducted in an elementary school today, the students will still learn from the experience, but it will not be the eye opener it was for students in the past. Though today’s students will be less shocked at the outcome of this experiment, the experience will still help them understand

Who comprised your clique? Be specific; describe several dimensions among the following: gender, ethnicity, class, beliefs, sexual orientation, faith systems, disabilities, interests, or geography.

110, 2014). A small crowd is a space shared with others who we believe to share values, norms, likes and dislikes, and give the self a sense of belonging (Saeta, 2014). It gives the self-emotional support, and reputation (Saeta, 2014; Jackie, 2012). But as times changed, social groups and formation of cliques

Understanding the group dynamics and laws relating to specific cultures allows one to avoid alienation and feel comfortable as an individual. The narrative voice of

I will be providing an example of conformity from my life that happened during high school. In high school I took this English class with a friend of mine and one day the teacher decided to have a debate. The process of the debate is that if you agree with the statement then you sit on the right side of the class but if you disagree with the statement you sit on the left, now I can’t really remember which statement it was, but I remember it being very one sided and I remember everyone in the class, like literally everyone sat on the right. Now I obviously was against the statement, however, I decided to join everyone else in conformity because I believed that no matter what I was about to say was probably going to be wrong because I would be

There are many elements that affect high school, some are even timeless. One of these rare elements are cliques. A clique is defined as a small exclusive group, or associates. The main reason why cliques are so timeless are because they are instinct, people are scared, and they are the social dynamics of high school.

In my early year of high school, I was a member of Pop Music Club which purpose was composing songs and performing on the stage. What we value the most was performing our own songs in front of audiences and releasing a CD that recorded all of the original songs. To insure we can always be in the best state before the performance, we usually would join a band at the beginning of the semester to build up our “Band Chemistry”. In addition, all of the members in the band was indispensable, that is, it was inexcusable if there were anyone quit, which perhaps ruin other members’ efforts. My club was exactly a strict club with these rules.

The following paper will discuss the groups or cliques present in environment such as high school. It will also include and a discussion on if the differential association theory can provide and explanation of the behaviors of the high school age group.

High school sucks. New school, new friends and it just happens to be two months into the year. How am I going to survive? It is your typical high school. The typical ‘mean girls', your typical ‘jocks' and your typical ‘nerd'. Where am I meant to fit in? I want to be in a group but I hate mean girls, I'm not very athletic and not very smart. That might mean I have to be friends with the nerds. Who would want to friends with the nerds? The first class of the day and I've made two new friends. They're the best. I was so confused where I had health and they helped me there and it was the worst lesson in my life. Lets hope this year goes fast. Lunch. How can explain this? It was strange. I was walking to my new friends and this really strange guy

Moreover, this social experiment took place outside of Convocation Hall in the middle of the field. It was around 1:00PM and a mass amount of students were leaving their classes. The tester saw this as the best opportunity to begin. The tester

Social structures and cultures are founded upon social interactions. By interacting with one another, people design rules, institutions and systems within which they seek to live. Symbols are used to communicate the expectations of a given society to those new to it, either children or outsiders. Through this broad schema of social development, one sees how social interaction lies at its core.

Participants in this study headed by Dawn Kent consisted of a concentration of 100 students found on the campus of Liberty University. All students who were used in this study consented fully to participation; however, they were not compensated for their cooperation. Subjects were taken from several classes viz. the “concert band”, a “chemistry class”, a physiological statistics class, and from common areas including the “computer lab, dining hall, and dormitories”. This method of gathering participants led to a larger number of music, biology, health, and psychology majors than others. In order to encompass a wider variety of age groups, students in varying degrees of college completion (junior, freshmen, etc.) were assembled for this study. Of the volunteers, 43 were male and 57 were female. In addition, 90% of the group were between ages 17 and 22, 7% were between 23 and 25, and the remaining 3% were 26 years of age or older. Of the 100 students included in this study, 26 were freshmen, 21 were sophomores, 23 were juniors and 30 were seniors [9].

When the class first started and after we introduce ourselves and said a hobby, I was mostly observing and only wanted to talk to Alexis because she was one of the four people I knew before class. I wanted to talk to Megan because she was Jamaican and so was my family, however, Megan did not seem to be interested at all so as time went by I felt as if I was forcing myself on her. Just like Ayla I felt like I was an outsider from the group because I did not agree with certain things such as some of the topics they were discussing, but I went with the flow because the majority of the group had agreed on it. Also another reason was I felt that sometimes when I was talking I was not good at explaining my ideas and nobody got what I was trying to say, but they agreed so I didn’t have to say anything else. I notice that from a few facial expressions from the group members.