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4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how having the right type of friends means acceptance in today's world, without the knowledge of how important a role those interactions will ultimately play in his adult life. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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play in his adult life, as well. A positive influence will set a youth off on the right road of self-confidence and self-worth; a negative experience will prove to
plague the adolescent for the rest of his life. The difference between friendship groups, cliques and crowds is primarily what draws them together. Cliques (crowds with a smaller
number of members) are composed of a specific - often superficial - element that separates their members from all other students. Giannetti et al (2008) point out how cliques
are akin to social power; "as peers divide up, children form into cliques around a leader or two and the pack lets it be known that not everybody is welcome"
(Giannetti et al, 2008). By contrast, friendship groups do not rely upon some specific component to define their connection but rather incorporate a multitude of shared characteristics such
as hobbies and interests. Thus, adolescents choose those more like themselves with whom to be friends, because there already exists an inherent level of comfort upon which such influence
can reside. If there is nothing inherently in common among the youths, there is no basis for a peer connection. Friendship groups are open to anyone, while cliques
are restricted to only those who are accepted by virtue of the defining quality. Moeller (2001) points out how a certain type of clique or crowd is more detrimental
to social skills than its counterpart; the nonstandard element of deviant cliques is such that they are antisocial in character and behavior. One study found how a group of
"rejected aggressive preadolescent boys...gathered together to form deviant cliques that devalued prosocial activities and shunned (and were shunned by) more conventional peer cliques" (Moeller, 2001, p. 213).
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