Author’s Note
Everyday girls and boys everywhere are pressured to be “like everyone else.” Pressure comes from their peers, magazine ads and T.V commercials. Everyday girls feel pressure to change them selves. People who were confident suddenly find flaws and problems in the smallest things and the pressure to be perfect leads to drastic measures.
A good definition of social pressure comes from dictionary.com.
“The influence exerted by a peer group in encouraging a person to change his or her attitudes, values, or behavior in order to conform to group norms. Social groups affected include membership groups, when the individual is "formally" a member (for example, political party, trade union), or a social clique. A person affected by peer pressure may or may not want to belong to these groups. They may also recognize dissociative groups with which they would not wish to associate, and thus they behave adversely concerning that group's behaviors.”
This definition is very helpful because of how general it is. The most important part of the definition is “encouraging a person to change his or her attitudes, values, or behavior in order to conform to group norms” this is all that is necessary for an understanding of social pressure.
I wanted my story to have a broad topic because I wanted people to understand the general idea of social pressure and not just one specific branch. I hope that my story spreads awareness for this general topic so that children will be aware of social pressure.
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