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= = =FORM: Popularity at CCB has the following characteristics:= =1) Previous knowledge:= =- It relates to physical appereance:= Most popular girls focus their attention on things like the way they look and are careless about academic results or personal virtues

=- It relates to fashion= Being popular demands wearing fancy, trendy and fashionable things

=-It relates to having friends or siblings in Bach= When your older sister or friends are in High School you get a recognition that makes you popular for something which is not even a personal merit

=- It relates to your social status= Some specific trades can make you popular for example if you are: - funny -sociable -over confident -fearless -bully -athlethic -artistic -expressive -gossiper

=2) INTERVIEW TO DR VICTORIA EUGENIA ACEVEDO ( PHD IN PHSYCHOLOGY)= According to the phsychologist we interviewed the characteritics of unpopularity and popularity depend directly on the social context. in general terms popullarity relates to : appareance, lifestyle, family, society, capacity, skills , money and friends ( see complete interview in interview to sicologist page)

=FUNCTION: ROLES INVOLVED IN POPULARITY AND INPOPULARITY:= PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: 1) Most popular girl: The prettiest, Most fashionable, The gossiper, The bully, The coolest , The dumbest , The meanest , The richest 2) The dancer: The expressive, The hotest, The craziest, The coolest 3) The nerd: The intelligent, The A+ student, The rejectred, The weirdest 4)The Athlethic: The hotest, The coolest, The best body fit, The strongest, The bully, The dummest, The skillfull, 5) The gossiper: The interested, The hypocret, The false, The meanest , The blamer, The tadteller, The lier 6) The bully: Meanest, gossiper, dishonest, the cruel, the strongest, the conflictive

MEDIA: Studies have shown very specific roles within the context of popularity and unpopularity. Recent studies have even made a distinction is made between two groups of high-status youth: those who are genuinely well liked by their peers and engage in predominantly prosocial behaviors and those who are seen as popular by their peers but are not necessarily well liked There are some recogniceable of popularity and unpopularty,which help us to understand the divergent forms of popularity :
 * high status well liked youth ( sociamentally popular)
 * high status socially powerful agressures ( persived popular)
 * low social staus (rejected).

=CAUSATION:WHAT MAKES AN UNPOPULAR & A POPULAR PERSON:= PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: The characteristics that name a Popular person is:

To be the prettiest, The gossiper, The meanest, The cruelest, The richest , The bully, The coolest , Most fashionable & The conflictive!

The characteristics that name an Unpopular person are:

The shy, The insecure, The nerd, The unsociable, The rejectred, The weirdest

=CHANGE: EFFECTS OF THE SOCIAL STATUS IN PERSONAL LIFE:= PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: If your unpopular it affects in many ways your social life because you become the rejectred, the nerd, the weirdest and everybody exept your friends start to bully you or exclude you and then you become the most rejectred in the school.

If your popular it doesnt affect your life because you have many friends you are the prettiest the coolest the most fashionable but then it becomes annoying because you bully everyone and then you become the popular BULLY!

MEDIA: According to the studies done on the Universtiy of Connecticut and the University of Missouri-Columbia Youth who are rejected by peers usually engage in negattive behaviour, including agression and are at risk for adjusment problems.

=CONNECTION:Social status is connected to my personal, family and academic life because:= PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:

Social status is connected personal life: Because you worry about your friends and how you look like and then live your family by a side and your academic life apart and you only worrie for your social status and your appareance. Personal life is related with social status because some people hide their own personality, likes and dislikes just to become popular and they are afraid to show who they really are. Social status also affect s personal life because it determines an individuals well being the way they feel and the way they assume life. Social status is connected to family life because sometimes people feel ashamed from their family and their relationship starts to break down. Academic life is also very connected to social status because if im a good student I try to ruin my nerd life to become a bad student and continue being popular so to keep a specific social status academic life can be affected.

= INTERVIEW TO DR VICTORIA EUGENIA ACEVEDO ( PHD IN PHSYCHOLOGY): =

According to the phsychologist being popular can cause many conflicts with your academic and familiar life. From her experience she has dealed with a great amount of young people whose academic life has been neggatively affected by the social status. In many cases, these young people have even failed years or faced school expulsion just to keep their social status intact. Related to the familiar life, she knows of many disfunctional families that are a result of keeping a social status.

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