Taking a Look at High School Cliques

Students in High School are being pressured every day for publicity. High school is usually a place where someone can find themself, a friend group they feel comfortable in. High school students encounter many different situations that may lead them into a series of downfalls through high school. Being in this facility, students are often categorized in groups based on their personalities, what they wear, and their social connections. In The Breakfast Club there are five students categorized into stereotypical groups in high school.Those groups are the popular students, the nerds, and the emo students. Sooner than later, these five students figure they all have something in common with each other; high school, and the pressure of their parents has molded them into the people they never wanted to become. Despite the differences between the students in The Breakfast Club, they share similarities that divides them into different groups throughout high school.

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

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.

Entering into Saint Francis High School can be a bit nerve racking. There will be so many cliques around campus such as the nerds, jocks, and druggies. Not being able to tell which one you may fit into will make high school more intimidating than it really is. How will you know what cliques are a good idea to join? Is it possible to be stuck between two cliques? For any new high schooler, finding the right group of students is all it might take to get you through those four years.

First, high schools do have cliques that unify students by groups. However, that doesn’t mean students confine in the groups they are “assigned” to, as shown in most movies representing cliques. In the movie The Breakfast Club, the five main characters used to represent the school all come from different crowds, which ultimately results in showing how they can still get along even though they don’t necessarily hang out with the same people. The characters are defined as “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” These labels divide the characters into

Each student has their own history, characteristics and behaviors. Honestly, these stereotypes are real, principally during high school, where people start to create their own thoughts, to participate of determined groups and to stablish their own life styles. John, the “easygoing”, has a past full of delicate situations: he suffered by abuse and he does not have a good relationship with his father, who is a drug user. Because of his history, he seems to be disinterested and selfish, the legitimate bad guy. Brian, the “nerd”, has his life based on achieve success in studies. His parents make a huge pressure in his life, so he is always worried about his scholar activities, trying to get the higher grade possible. Because of that, he is treated as unsociable, and he is far from being popular in the school. Allison is “the weird” of the students, she uses strange clothes and has a peculiar style. Her parents do not really care about her, causing this weird behavior. She is quiet, does not talk too much and feels lonely, so she goes to detention by her own desire. Claire, is the “preppy” girl. With a good looking, she is also kind of selfish. Her parents are in a constant fight, which makes her acts like she does. Andrew is “the athlete” of the group. He receives a huge pressure from his parents in all the fields of his life, and he grew up with the thought that “you have to win”, which makes him do things that he does not really want.

Every high school has different cliques. There's the popular ones, the athletes, the nerds, etc. One difference between each school is the way they show the cliques. For Abby Warner's school there's "the list". In this "list" it names the prettiest and ugliest girls in school.

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.

At first glance high school seems to be a fun and relaxed time. A time that you get to hang out with friends and participate in extracurricular activities. Some of your most treasured memories will be made in high school. However, high school is a cruel and unforgiving place. In high school individuals get judged by their appearance, the way they act, and who they hang out with.

When I was in high school, we had several cliques (preps, jocks, choir kids, etc). The group I was apart of, we were like the misfits. Although we came from several different backgrounds, we all came together and developed closely bonded friendships. We were all in the same grade and had basically spent everyday together from sixth grade to right before college began. But our group did have some similarities, we were all white, born biologically female, of the same age, and all came from working class to lower class families. I still talk to at least two of the members today. Although the clique of misfits I was apart kept to ourselves, we were targets of the people ‘mean girls’ of our class.

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.

Throughout middle school, each person enters into their gawky stages of life from wearing braces, random growth spurts and confusing feelings. Along with that, middle school is the stepping stone of entering a social clique that will possibly stick with you till graduation. I had no official clique, but people did judge and call me horrible names behind my back. Yet I didn’t care, because I was confident in being

Surviving high school is no easy task. From the very first day of class, students are forced to find comradery in various social circles. These cliques can range from sports jocks, to math and band geeks, to school club members, and to the social outcasts who could care less about school. While there are more various types of groups, the most common are the jocks and the nerds. As far as everybody in the school in concerned, the popular athletes and the “wimpy” nerds are from two very different planets. However, while there are a lot of differences between the two as far as physical appearance goes, I had the honor of being part of both worlds, and I know for a fact that they have more in common than either would care to admit.

High school is rough enough as it is; filled with college prep, standardized tests, puberty, gossip, parties, and drama. Teenagers are struggling to find who they are while trying to make friends with people that are trying to figure out who they are. What can make this process even more unbearably dreadful than it already is, is being a social minority. Being different than everyone else makes it that much harder to find a “place” in high school.

Everyone knows the old clique: A picture is worth a thousand words. This is maybe because it is harder to reject the physical reality of a picture then it is to dispute word that are written on a page. The picture is still language or else it couldn’t be worth a thousand words, but in some ways it is more free then text. It is more simplified. If you see a picture of a certain breed of dog it is easier to associate the name of the breed with how people think the breed should look then if you read about the breed and construct your own mental image. A picture is a strong way to appeal to people’s senses. A monument and memorials are like pictures. Monuments act as physical appeals to society’s senses in an attempt by various groups to gain authority from society. For example, if a person were to walk through the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. they could observe the end results of a long struggle for authority by politicians, designers, people with disabilities, and how authority has effected the role of women in the Canon of American History.