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==**A peer group is a social group consisting of humans. A peer group is a primary group of people, typically informal, who share a similar or equal status and who are usually of the same age, tended to travel around and interact within the social aggregate Members of a particular peer group often have similar interests and backgrounds. However, some peer groups are very diverse, crossing social divides such as socieconomic status, level of education,race,creed,culture, or religion.****Unlike the family and the school, the peer group lets children escape the direct supervision of adults. Among peers, children learn to form relationships on their own. Peer groups also offer the chance to discuss interests that adults may not share with their children (such as clothing and popular music) or permit (such as drugs and sex). **== ==**Peer groups have a significant influence on phychological and social adjustments for group individuals. Peer groups provide perspective outside of individual’s viewpoints. Members inside peer groups also learn to develop relationships with other social systems. Peers, particularly group members, become important social referents for teaching members customs, social norms, and different ideologies. **== ==**Peer groups can also serve for teaching members gender roles. Through gender-role socialization group members learn about sex differences, social and cultural differences. While boys and girls differ greatly there is not a one to one link between sex and gender role with males always being masculine and female always being feminine. Both genders can contain different levels of masculinity and femininity. Peer groups like gender roles can consist of all males, all females, or both male and female. Peer groups can have great influence or peer preassureon each other’s gender role behavior depending on the amount of pressure. If a peer group holds to a strong social norm, member will behave in ways predicted by their gender roles, but if there is not a unanimous peer agreement gender roles do not correlate with behavior. **==
 * == § Serve as a source of info. ==
 * == § Teaches gender roles. ==

Serves as a practicing venue to adulthood.
==**Adolecents Peer groups provide support for children, and teens as they assimilate into the adult society decreasing dependence on parents, and increasing feeling of self-sufficiency and connecting with a much larger social network. this is “a period in which individuals are expanding their perspective beyond the family how to and learning negotiate relationships with others in the social system. Peers, particularly group members, become important social referents” Peer groups also have influence on individual member’s attitudes, and behaviors on many cultural, and social issues such as drug use, violence, academic achievement and even the development and expression of prejudice. **== ==**Peer Groups “ provide an influential social setting in which group norms are developed, and enforced through socialization process that promote within group similarities. Peer groups cohesion is determined, and maintained by such factors as group Communication ****, Group consensus, and Group conformity ****concerning attitude and behavior. As members of peer groups interconnect, and agree, a normative code arises. This Normative code can become very rigid deciding group behavior, and dress. Peer group individuality is increased by normative codes, and intergroup conflict. Member Deviation from the strict normative code can lead to rejection from the group. **==
 * == § Teaches unity & collective behavior ==

Source: [|http://en.peerproblems.org/Peer_group#Developmental_psychology]
**Date: 09/05/12**
 * By:Vanessa Cabrera Guarin **

** Reflection: **
===**I learned how peer pressure groups influence in a psychological and emotional way where persons change their own perspectives of things that day to day are happening in their own lifes, and they aren´t realizing in how a big way they are changing their way of acting, towards the situation that they are dealing throughout their lifes not seeing the consequences that their decisions cause.**===

**By: Vanessa Cabrera Guarin & Daniela Larrañaga**

 * Date: 09/05/12**


 * PEER PREASSURE (SMOKING) **

===This paper is concerned with the meaning and the processes of peer pressure in relation to smoking behaviour amongst pre-adolescent and adolescent. Previous research suggests that children who smoke cause their non-smoking peers to take up the habit through strategies such as bullying and rejection from a group. In this study different methods starts initial smoking situations from the same groups. This can result as a self complete bad result which makes teen-agers follow other groups that guide them through a bd truck in their lifesand this can cause strong elements of self-wrong behaviour. This study highlights the problems of using a single research method to understand processes. Results suggest that individuals play a more active role in starting to smoke than has previously been no-knowledged and that social processes other than peer pressure need to be taken into account.===


 * REFLECTION: **

In this article we can see a consequnce that peer preassure can cause in teenagers, like smoking, provocing kids/adults and teenagers to let themselves get influenced by other people and damage their self-control or behaviour in their house and personal life. This reactions can cause conflicts with friends, family, and people they know and also can bring them to something worst.

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 * by: Van****essa Cabrera, Daniela Larrañaga & Ana Lucia Madrid**
 * date: 10/05/12**

= MODELS AROUND THE WORLD AND THEIR MEASUREMENTS: = COLOMBIA **:**
 * BY:ANA LUCIA MADRID & MARIAMARIA MESA**
 * DATE: 11 / 5 /12**
 * In Colombia models need to have a great body, they need to have big brest small hips and be really skini .**
 * -BREST: 90 cm minimum!**
 * -WAISTS: 60cm maximum!**
 * -BOTTOM : 90 maximum!**
 * -SIZE: 4 - 6**

UNITED KINGDOM: More normal.. [] UNITED STATES :
 * For united kingdom you can have a little more fat.**
 * -SIZE : 6 - 8**
 * -BREST: 34 inches**
 * -BOTTOM: 70 cm**

-BREST:90cm
REFLECTION: In every parto of the world models are different and they have different aspects, but kids and teens always will follow them and will have that pressure in their shoulders , because thats the image they have of the perfect body wild that is a good work body but it isnt the most commun , at least it wasnt , but now it is converting in it.
 * -BOTTOM:80**