Clique

I don’t know about you, but “cliques” are the first thought to my mind. The media is drowning in films that portray the idea of “cliques”, but personally, I believe the film Mean Girls is the best representation of the world of cliques. Means Girls is a teen classic, and I can almost bet the majority of my generation has seen or at least heard of it. It is American teen comedy film that manifests the harsh conditions teens undergo when it comes to high school cliques. The plot starts off when…

the people in these groups function together. Cliques can be very easily classified, but doing this without stereotyping can be difficult. When classifying, it will either be positive or negative, and the way we classify others will determine the outcome. Rosalind Wiseman's essay, "The Queen Bee and Her Court", is an excellent example of positive classification. Wiseman uses classification to explain to mothers how their teenage girl's social cliques work and how to recognize what kind of role…

Social climbing is simply how I would describe the cliques of people. As a result, the popular folks at church amass followers, and power. Such a system requires you to play the “game” with people of influence if you want to be a fully included member of the cliques. Have the people in church ever hurt you because you were not part of his or her clique in church. For example, Chris Surratt write, Small groups are vital to the spiritual health of your…

In having them work together to define the scope, I basically had them create the part of “why were are here.” The major problem I had was my three different cliques needed to all flow in the same direction of the scope we had defined. “Why are we here” seemed to be more of an individual thought at this time instead of a group thought. One thing I did start to see, and Charrier (1972) defined it well, is the…

1-in-4 Teens "1-in-4 teens deals with depression" read the signs all around the school. It 's an epidemic, looking around on a daily basis i would never have guessed the proportion to be so staggering. But that 's the thing about depression, it doesn 't manifest itself physically, it 's a cold chill that sweeps across the room. The subtle and strangely comforting hand of death hanging to your every action with crippling grip. "1-in-4 teens" is a powerful statistic; the implications of such a…

In Rosalind Wiseman’s essay “Queen Bee and Her Court”, she specified various roles played in social cliques. In the essay, she states “cliques are sophisticated, complex, and multilayered, and every girl has a role within them.” This demonstrates that although it may seem cliques are very simple, they are actually very conglomerate. In social cliques there are positive and negative roles that a person can have. The sidekick is a negative role; whereas, the floater is a positive role. There are…

people based off of gender, social standing, or physical appearance. This eliminates any chance of personal gain from it such as understanding. Everyone bands together in their own cliques made up of people that look the same or are from the same societal background as them. As Wiseman says in her essay Queen Bee, “Cliques are sophisticated, complex, and multilayered, and every girl has a role within them.” This stands true for society as a whole and not just a typical teenage girl. People are…

it sheds some light on the forces that influence human behavior within large crowds. Rudyard Kipling describes a trend, stating, “All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.” He explains that people isolate themselves into congruent cliques. At the same time, they flee from things that are alien and peculiar. When it comes to interactions in society, people tend to surround themselves with those who are similar to them and reject those who aren’t similar,…

relates to the Social Structure of which is upheld within high school. The type of people who you associate yourself with in high school determines yours social ranking throughout high school most of the time. High school is split up into a variety of cliques and/or groups, including the nerds, preps (privileged kids), hippies, emo, stoners and many others. The nerds were thought to be particularly gifted in terms of their intellectual intelligence in the subjects they are in. They were the kids…

The first clique i’m going to talk about is the popular girls. Aka the plastics, the girls that manage to somehow hit puberty in the 7th grade and thus are the objects of every boy who also hit puberty in middle school attention. The Gothes Ohh the rebels, those that love to stick their noses up at the blond haired, cardigan wearing girls who want to fit in. The irony is their decision to wear black eyeliner, keep their hair in front of their eyes and…