To be honest, my peer group is very different.
We have been increasing during the years of the high school. In 2º ESO, I had a big argument with my close friend of school and we went to different road. I met very interesting people in my high school class and with time we made ourselves very good friends. During the next years we knew more amazing people and now we are a big group. They represent all for me.
We have (more or less) the same values but our way of seeing the life is very different. We have various status social and sometimes this is a little trouble. For example, on the one hand, one of my friends is in “Juventudes Comunistas”, however, two of them are in “PSOE”; this makes politic conflicts frequently. On the other hand, other female friend, have a specially high status social, she came to high school in 1º Bach year, but she came from nun’s school. Her income is bigger than our and sometimes it is obvious enough. There are members of my peer group without fixed ideals too.
In spite of this, we have the same habits and when one of us have a strange deviant attitudes, we have an intervention to change it. Sometimes, we participate in deviant too.
Once or twice we have had problems with boy and girlfriend matter, but we talk about the trouble and then we try to forget it; in the long run, they are solved alone. These things don’t have to break a friendship.
It’s obvious that each one has a different role in the group, is because of that, why we are indispensable. I think we represent the society because my group, as I have already said, has members of different families, whith have different habits, norms and each one of us believes in different things. It is because of this that we don’t have norms (even informal), each one has his ways to do things and we try to respect. Obviously, it provokes conflicts. But it is the society, a conflict with infinite solutions, no?
"we don’t have norms (even informal)", I don't believe this. The problem is you take them for granted. For instance, do you celebrate birthday parties? or are there some kind of places you NEVER go out to and no one would dare suggest you do? That's part of your culture, and those assumed choices could be understood as norms.
ResponderEliminaryes, it can be true, but I don´t know anyone especially. I suppose that we take norms for granted, like you have said, and we don't think about it.
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