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Social pressure - Definition |
| Related Words: Advocate, Affliction, Aggravation, Albatross, Annoyance, Ascendancy, Authority, Bale, Bearing, Beset, Blight, Boost, Bug, Bummer, Bump, Bunt |
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Peer pressure comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/or behaviors.
Popular usage associates the term peer pressure particularly with young people or teenagers. The concept can provide an easy, superficial explanation of what occurs when people "go off the rails" or "get in with a bad crowd". But the term can explain much more in the realms of the drive for social acceptance, the spread of fashion and the operations of crowd behavior.
See also: conformity; groupthink; hive mind; Dare to Be Different.
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Example Usage of pressure |
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KWalterFrank: My job now is to provide moments my chidren can look back on with fondness. No pressure! KFrank |
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D_C_Alerts: Partly Cloudy and 30 F at Washington DC, Reagan National Airport, VA Winds are North at 3.5 MPH (3 KT). The pressure is http://s1z.us/ae.htm |
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Connie220691: RT I'm not anti-gifts, but a lot of people can't afford gifts, and they feel a pressure to spend their only money on it..and it makes me sad |
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