Peer Pressure Vs Social Pressure
analytical Essay
975 words
The definition of social pressures is the influence that is exerted on a person or group by another person or group. It includes: rational argument persuasion, conformity and demands. With that being said people fear not being accepted by others which is why they fall into social pressures. Whether it be friends, family, professional or even a romantic relationship we all fall into different types of social pressures in order to fit in.
Although most people will consider social pressure and peer pressure similar the only difference would be that peer pressure is influenced from members of one 's peer group while social pressure is from anyone. Teenagers fall more into peer pressure rather than social pressure in order to fit in with their friends
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In this essay, the author
- Defines social pressures as the influence that is exerted on a person by another person or group, including rational argument persuasion, conformity and demands.
- Analyzes how teens fall into peer pressure rather than social pressure in order to fit in with their friends and/or relationships.
- Explains that positive social pressure is influencing someone to do something that will benefit them in a good way.
- Explains that adolescents and adults fall into social pressure as much as teens due to the fact that adults have different opinions on how to deal with situations.
- Analyzes how the three hundred villagers in "the lottery" felt that the tradition was unfair because they were the ones picked from the black box and stoned to receive a good crop season.
- Analyzes how delia jones stays with her abusive husband sykes in the story "sweat" by zora neale hurston. she felt socially pressured into staying with him because she wasn't a woman of color.
- Explains that they've never felt peer pressured into doing anything, despite what others told them, and only ever felt socially-pressured by their family.
Although it was a tradition many of the villagers did feel it was unfair mainly because they were the ones picked from the black box and stoned, even so they realized it wasn’t fair. Many traditions can be pressured into families and in this case villages and while it was being passed down the lottery wasn’t done properly as it was the very first time meaning they don’t seem to care about it if it’s not done properly and are only doing it because it’s been passed down for many …show more content…
I’ve only ever felt socially pressured by my family. Pressured in a positive manner, since I’m the youngest in my family all my siblings encourage me to do better than them and to learn from their mistakes. As a senior in high school all I’ve heard from everyone is “you better do good to go to college.” and since that’s all I’ve been hearing entering high school my grades have been on track and when they dropped they went back up after talking to my parents. Even though their pressure is positive it still overwhelms me because if I fail I know I would let everyone
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