Indledning
Peer pressure. Quite a weird thing, being pressured by your own peers. Even scary at times, pressure from surroundings can turn even the gentlest of children into cold-blooded murderers, though it can also work the other way.
Peer pressure is something we often look badly upon, despising the thought that it could ever be a good thing. However, is that just plain human ignorance? This essay will be based on two different sources.
The first one is “Peer Pressure Has a Positive Side”, an article brought in “Scientific America” and written by “Annie Murphy Paul” who is a magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences.
The second source is the short story called “Born to Be Wild” by Steve Bishop. It’s a short story about how peer pressure can quickly go south. But first, we will take a look at what peer pressure actually is.
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Uddrag
Peer pressure is the direct influence on other people by “peers” (a group of like-minded people, age, background and so on), where an individual gets encouraged to blend in with their peers by changing values, behaviour or attitude to better conform with those of the influencing group.
This can result in either positive or negative effects for the individual and the group. In adolescents, this can often be seen as encouraging sexual intercourse and abusing substances, drinking and so on. Peer pressure has spread from face-to-face interaction to also be quite a popular and easy thing to do digitally.
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