"An engaging, fascinating, and important book." -Spencer Cahill,
University of South Florida "An in-depth and often sobering account
of the social dynamics of childhood in the 1990s. This important
study extends our knowledge of peer culture beyond the walls of
classrooms into the day to day dilemmas of middle class children as
they seek power and acceptance from their peers." -Donna Eder,
author of School Talk "An excellent addition to a growing number of
rich empirical studies of children's lives and peer cultures. The
Adlers' study demonstrates the importance of entering children's
worlds and gaining their perspectives for a new sociology of
childhood." -William A. Corsaro, Indiana University Peer Power
explodes existing myths about children's friendships, power, and
popularity, and the gender chasm between elementary school boys and
girls. Based on eight years of intensive insider participant
observation in their own children's community, the book discusses
the vital components in the lives of preadolescents: popularity,
friendships, cliques, social status, social isolation, loyalty,
bullying, boy-girl relationships, and afterschool activities. It
describes how friendships shift and change, how children are drawn
into groups and excluded from them, how clique leaders maintain
their power and popularity, and how the individuals' social
experiences and feelings about themselves differ from the top of
the pecking order to the bottom. The Adlers focus their attention
on the peer culture of the children themselves and the way this
culture extracts and modifies elements from adult culture.
Children's peer culture, as it is nourished in those spaces where
grownups cannot penetrate, stands between individual children and
the larger adult society. As such, it is a mediator and shaper,
influencing the way children collectively interpret their
surroundings and deal with the common problems they face. The
Adlers explore some of the patterns that develop in this social
space, noting both the differences in the gendered cultures of boys
and girls and their overlap into afterschool activities, role
behavior, romantic inclinations, and social stratification. Peer
culture shows the informal social mechanisms through which children
create their social order, determine their place and identity, and
develop positive and negative feelings about themselves. Patricia
A. Adler is a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado.
Peter Adler is a professor of sociology at the University of
Denver. The Adlers have worked and written together for more than
twenty-five years, producing ten books and more than fifty
articles.
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