The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become Ali Syed
The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become Ali Syed How the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future successFor decades, parents across…
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The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become Ali Syed
How the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future successFor decades, parents across America have asked their kids, "If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?" The answer is, "Duh, yes." Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior--they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this.
Chin call this "the peer effect." In their book, they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both
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