Popularity in the Peer System
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 2011
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-1-60918-066-9 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together leading researchers, this is the first volume to comprehensively examine popularity among children and adolescents: what it is, how it is attained, and its impact on peer interaction and individual development. The book clarifies how popularity is distinct from being socially accepted or well liked and how it is different for girls and boys. Behaviors that characterize popular peers are explored, as are the developmental benefits and risks of popularity and its connections to peer influence processes. Innovative measurement approaches and research designs are clearly described.
Reviews / Votes
A comprehensive analysis of theory and research on popularity in peer contexts, from some of the discipline's best scholars. The editors provide a fresh and engaging framework within which to explore a longstanding area of investigation. Contributors offer conceptually provocative perspectives, identify pivotal issues and problems, analyze and interpret existing evidence, and describe new directions for investigation. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in peer relations.--Gary W. Ladd, PhD, Cowden Distinguished Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State UniversityPopularity, or high status in the peer group, is a social goal that can have problematic consequences for children and youth through its potential for promoting high-risk behavior and interfering with the formation of healthy close friendships. This important volume offers a timely integration of what has been learned about popularity, how it differs from peer acceptance, and how the dynamics and meaning of popularity may change over age and vary as a function of gender and culture. The editors and contributors serve the field well by suggesting an agenda for future research in this growing area.--Steven R. Asher, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Why do young people seek popularity? Why do popular youth manifest a mix of prosocial and antisocial behaviors? Popularity in the Peer System provides clear answers to these questions. If this up-to-date, practical reference does not convince you that popularity and likeability are two different concepts, nothing ever will!--Rene Veenstra, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
This timely volume returns to a classic topic to summarize recent advances in studying popularity. The coverage of conceptual and methodological issues is especially strong. From leading scholars in the burgeoning field of peer relationships, the volume is certain to be an important reference for newcomers to the topic of popularity as well as those who have long studied the issue. It would be a good text for an advanced graduate seminar on peer relationships.--Brett Laursen, PhD, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University
-_x000D_The editors provide a thorough research base of articles. This allows the school social worker access to current literature to substantiate interventions created when working with youth. Another strength of the text is that the reader is challenged to question what further research is necessary to better understand peer relationships. This dares school social workers to think, not only as treatment providers, but also as life learners.--School Social Work Journal, 10/16/2013
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
572 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60918-066-9 (9781609180669)
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Antonius H. N. Cillessen, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Developmental Psychology in the Behavioural Science Institute and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dr. Cillessen's research interests include peer relationships in childhood and adolescence, popularity, aggression and antisocial behavior, the development of social cognition, and research methods for developmental psychology (sociometric methods, social network analysis, observational research, and longitudinal design and analysis). He has served on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology, the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, and the International Journal of Behavioral Development. David Schwartz, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Schwartz's research is broadly concerned with the links between social problems in the peer group during childhood and adolescence and the development of psychopathology. He has published widely on topics related to bully/victim problems in school peer groups, community violence exposure, peer relationships across cultural contexts, friendship, aggression, and popularity. Dr. Schwartz has also served on the editorial boards of Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Lara Mayeux, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Dr. Mayeux's primary research interests are peer relationships and the development of peer status in middle childhood and adolescence, with a particular focus on popularity. Her work, funded by the National Science Foundation, has focused on behavioral, social-cognitive, and gender issues in popularity.
Content
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I. Methods of Studying Popularity _x000D_ 1. Popularity as a Social Concept: Meanings and Significance, William M. Bukowski _x000D_ 2. Conceptualizing and Measuring Popularity, Antonius H. N. Cillessen and Peter E. L. Marks _x000D_ 3. Being There Awhile: An Ethnographic Perspective on Popularity, Don E. Merten _x000D_ II. Development of Popularity _x000D_ 4. Social Acceptance and Popularity: Two Distinct Forms of Peer Status, Lara Mayeux, John J. Houser, and Karmon D. Dyches _x000D_ 5. Popularity and Gender: The Two Cultures of Boys and Girls, Amanda J. Rose, Gary C. Glick, and Rhiannon L. Smith _x000D_ 6. Popularity as a Form of Social Dominance: An Evolutionary Perspective, Anthony D. Pellegrini, Cary J. Roseth, Mark J. Van Ryzin, and David W. Solberg _x000D_ 7. Prosocial Skills, Social Competence, and Popularity, Julie Wargo Aikins and Scott D. Litwack _x000D_ III. Popularity in Context _x000D_ 8. Popularity in Peer Group Perspective: The Role of Status in Adolescent Peer Systems, B. Bradford Brown _x000D_ 9. Peer Popularity in the Context of Ethnicity, Amy Bellmore, Adrienne Nishina, and Sandra Graham _x000D_ IV. Popularity and Adjustment _x000D_ 10. The Power of Popularity: Influence Processes in Childhood and Adolescence, Marlene J. Sandstrom _x000D_ 11. The High Price of High Status: Popularity as a Mechanism of Risk, David Schwartz and Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman _x000D_ V. Integration 12. Toward a Theory of Popularity, Antonius H. N. Cillessen _x000D_
I. Methods of Studying Popularity _x000D_ 1. Popularity as a Social Concept: Meanings and Significance, William M. Bukowski _x000D_ 2. Conceptualizing and Measuring Popularity, Antonius H. N. Cillessen and Peter E. L. Marks _x000D_ 3. Being There Awhile: An Ethnographic Perspective on Popularity, Don E. Merten _x000D_ II. Development of Popularity _x000D_ 4. Social Acceptance and Popularity: Two Distinct Forms of Peer Status, Lara Mayeux, John J. Houser, and Karmon D. Dyches _x000D_ 5. Popularity and Gender: The Two Cultures of Boys and Girls, Amanda J. Rose, Gary C. Glick, and Rhiannon L. Smith _x000D_ 6. Popularity as a Form of Social Dominance: An Evolutionary Perspective, Anthony D. Pellegrini, Cary J. Roseth, Mark J. Van Ryzin, and David W. Solberg _x000D_ 7. Prosocial Skills, Social Competence, and Popularity, Julie Wargo Aikins and Scott D. Litwack _x000D_ III. Popularity in Context _x000D_ 8. Popularity in Peer Group Perspective: The Role of Status in Adolescent Peer Systems, B. Bradford Brown _x000D_ 9. Peer Popularity in the Context of Ethnicity, Amy Bellmore, Adrienne Nishina, and Sandra Graham _x000D_ IV. Popularity and Adjustment _x000D_ 10. The Power of Popularity: Influence Processes in Childhood and Adolescence, Marlene J. Sandstrom _x000D_ 11. The High Price of High Status: Popularity as a Mechanism of Risk, David Schwartz and Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman _x000D_ V. Integration 12. Toward a Theory of Popularity, Antonius H. N. Cillessen _x000D_