response to popularity

This response submitted by Jason Foust, Kimberly Richey (foustjason@hotmail.com) at 4:01 pm on 2/9/01. Additions were last made on Tuesday, February 13, 2001. Section: Myers.

Good start to your project. Make sure you define the standard for what is popular, so people can understand how you are measuring it. You might also think about surveying kids at the elementary schools because our standards for cliques and the norms for popularity begin at that age. You should define why popularity is important in terms of finding a mate, or reproducing. Another idea to include in your survey is to ask the students how popular they think they are and how important it is to them or if they think that popularity will help them get ahead in the future. If a student doesn't reach a popular status then what other behavior patterns are affected by physical attributes, socio-economic standing, sex, race, and religion?


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