{"id":4791,"date":"2023-02-27T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhcolorpowdercoating.com\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:52:25","slug":"the-12-high-school-cliques-that-exist-today-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhcolorpowdercoating.com\/the-12-high-school-cliques-that-exist-today-and.html","title":{"rendered":"The 12 high school cliques that exist today and how they differ from decades past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure to attend a top-notch college appears to have affected the way teens sort themselves into cliques.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 12 high school cliques that exist today and how they differ from decades past\" src=\"https:\/\/jhcolorpowdercoating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/672\/2023\/03\/die-12-high-school-cliquen-die-heute-existieren_1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Still from Mark Waters &#39;2004 film&#39; Mean Girls &#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers conducted focus groups with students who had recently graduated from high school to ask them about their experiences with peer groups.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, participants identified 12 different &quot;peer crowds&quot; and classified them into a social hierarchy.<\/li>\n<li>The results show that compared to recent decades, some groups have risen or fallen in the hierarchy and some new groups have emerged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do modern high school peer groups compare to the familiar cliques of decades past &#8211; Jocks, Stoners, Brains? A new study explores this question and sheds light on some new groups that have formed in the high school social hierarchy. It offers insights into changing attitudes among young people, due in part to increased pressure to obtain a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the Journal of Adolescent Research in December 2018 come from a series of focus groups researchers conducted with recent high school graduates and ethnically diverse students born between 1990 and 1997 and enrolled in one of two U.S. universities.<\/p>\n<p>To get a picture of students&#39; recent experiences with peers, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin asked their focus groups to write down the different cliques at their schools and then try to agree on common groups that existed at all schools. The researchers then asked the students questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which groups were the most popular?<\/li>\n<li>How well did they do in school?<\/li>\n<li>What types of clothing they wear?<\/li>\n<li>What race, gender, income are these?<\/li>\n<li>How good do they look?<\/li>\n<li>Where do they hang out after school?<\/li>\n<li>What they do on the weekends?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The students identified 12 general &#39;crowds&#39; in modern high schools: Populars, Jocks, Floaters, Good-Ats, Fine Arts, Brains, Normals, Drugstore Stoners, Emo \/ Goths, Anime Manga Kids, and Loners. The researchers also classified these masses into two groups: conventional and counterculture, with &#39;conventional masses encompassing the values normally rewarded by the U.S. educational system, and counterculture masses opposing and\/or offering alternatives to them&#39;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 12 high school cliques that exist today and how they differ from decades past\" src=\"https:\/\/jhcolorpowdercoating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/672\/2023\/03\/die-12-high-school-cliquen-die-heute-existieren_2.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Differences in modern cliques and the pressure to go to college<\/h3>\n<p>In many ways, modern cliques seem to mirror the high school peer groups of generations past. For example, the top of the modern social hierarchy is occupied by familiar and conventional crowds like jocks, talented students, and popular kids &#8211; not exactly a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The &#39;brain&#39; crowd that was in the middle of the social hierarchy, however, appeared to be different from past decades. Students often noted that this crowd seemed over-consumed by academics and had a desire to get into a top-tier college, a concern not observed by previous researchers.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;Participants identified academic anxiety in more specific terms and even suggested that students in the&#39; brain peer crowd were &#39;less mentally healthy&#39; because they feared upsetting their parents, &#39; said Rachel Gordon, lead study author and professor of sociology at UIC. UIC told today .<\/p>\n<p>Competition for good colleges seems to have shaken the high school hierarchy in other ways as well.<\/p>\n<p>The fine arts audience, for example, has been around for decades, but now appears to be increasing in status and prevalence, an increase researchers attributed to the importance of participation in extracurricular activities for college admissions. Meanwhile, researchers identified a new target group: the so-called &quot;good-ats,&quot; who, as the name implies, are well-rounded and score above average in academics, athletics and extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, earlier generations had similar kinds of students-researchers called them &#39;jock scholars&#39; or &#39;beautiful brains&#39;. According to the researchers, however, good-ats differ from these groups in their drive to achieve in several different areas at once. Again, the researchers suggested that this drive likely &#39;reflects the need for college-bound students to &#39;appear&#39; rounded in college applications&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>Another new group identified in the study is the anime\/manga crowd, which participants described as &#39;unattractive, outlandish, and socially awkward&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;They probably wear clothes that represent video games and anime,&#39; said one participant. &#39;Yeah, lots of fandom stuff and cosplays [dressing up as anime characters],&#39; said another student. &#39;Hair of color. . . . You must have strangely colored hair and headphones. &#39;<\/p>\n<p>This group &#39;resembled geeks, dorks, nerds, and dweebs&#39; in previous U.S. studies, and their social life is primarily online, the researchers noted.<\/p>\n<h3>Low-status cliques reflect changing times<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 12 high school cliques that exist today and how they differ from decades past\" src=\"https:\/\/jhcolorpowdercoating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/672\/2023\/03\/die-12-high-school-cliquen-die-heute-existieren_3.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Study suggests lower-status crowds are more influenced by current events, popular culture and social media. Gordon provided several examples of this apparent connection to UIC today , among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The emergence of the &#39;Anime \/ Magna&#39; peer crowd, which she said is a modern incarnation of a classic crowd for computer geeks, likely fostered by sharing cultures on the Internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#39;emo \/ goth&#39; crowd, which shares with past decades a focus on countercultural behavior, but focuses on today&#39;s music and aesthetics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The expressed fear of &#39;loners&#39; as potential violent offenders, which Gordon described as &#39;new and unique to youth today&#39; and possibly reflective of the prevalence of school shootings in the last 20 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>White students perceive crowds differently<\/h3>\n<p>The study found that crowds at the top of the social hierarchy were often characterized as white, and that white students were likely to refer to racial-ethnic crowds as monoliths, using &quot;racially coded language&quot;. Students of color, however, tended to observe many more differences within racial-ethnic groups, as one black student described:<\/p>\n<p>&#39;. There is so much variety. You have good looking black people. You do not have good looking blacks. You have smart blacks and not so smart, you have healthy and then not healthy. &#39;<\/p>\n<p>Students of color generally said they were inextricably linked to members of their racial-ethnic group, unlike white students. For this reason, a 12. Group included in new hierarchical pyramid of researchers. The researchers wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When students of color identified racial-ethnic groups, they saw them in a positive way as a home base to which they automatically belonged. One focus group participant described how a student of color cannot &#39;be fully in another group because by default he is in a [racial-ethnic] community [because] that is just who he is&#39;.<\/p>\n<h3>Why cliques form?<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 12 high school cliques that exist today and how they differ from decades past\" src=\"https:\/\/jhcolorpowdercoating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/672\/2023\/03\/die-12-high-school-cliquen-die-heute-existieren_4.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Still from the 1993 Richard Linklater film &#39;Dazed and Confused&#39;. Image source: Gramercy<\/p>\n<p>Most people frame cliques in a negative light, and it&#39;s no wonder: they often lead to social exclusion and isolation and, if you&#39;ve never seen a Hollywood high school movie, some pretty unsavory behavior. Still, cliques are probably just a result of human nature &#8211; the desire to divide ourselves into groups for reasons of familiarity and certainty, control and dominance, and security and support as Mark Prigg wrote .<\/p>\n<p>Or, more simply, we form cliques because we want to surround ourselves with people like us, a preference that is as deeply ingrained as &#39;our fears of people who are different and our aspirations for status within our community,&#39; as Derek Thompson wrote The Atlantic .<\/p>\n<p>In any case, studying cliques could help scientists and educators find ways to make schools safer and better.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;Peer youth play an important role in determining short-term and long-term life trajectories socially, educationally and psychologically,&#39; Gordon told UIC today. &quot;Understanding how adolescents navigate their environment and perceive themselves and others can advance research in many areas, from successfully promoting healthy behaviors such as anti-smoking or safe sex messages to developing effective curricula or even teaching about the effects of school shootings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure to attend a top-notch college appears to have affected the way teens sort themselves into cliques. 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