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Peer Powerseeks to explode existing myths about children's friendships, power and popularity, and the gender chasm between elementary school boys and girls. Based on eight years of intensive insider participant observation in their own children's community, Peter and Patti Adler discuss the vital components of the lives of preadolescents, popularity, friendships, cliques, social status, social isolation, loyalty, bullying, boy-girl relationships, and afterschool activities. They describe how friendships shift and change, how people are drawn into groups and excluded from them, how clique leaders maintain their power and popularity, and how individuals' social experiences and feelings about themselves differ from the top of the pecking order to the bottom. In so doing, the Adlers focus their attention on the peer culture of the children themselves and the way this culture extracts and modifies elements from adult culture. Children's peer culture, as it is nourished in those spaces where grown ups cannot penetrate, stands between individual children and the larger adult society. As such, it is a mediator and shaper, influencing the way children collectively interpret their surroundings and deal with the common problems they face. The Adlers explore some of the patterns that develop in this social space, noting both the differences in boys' and girls' gendered cultures and the overlap in many social dynamics, afterschool activities, role behaviour, romantic inclinations and social stratification. For example, children's participation in adult-organized afterschool activities - a now-prominent feature of many American children's social experience - has profound implications for their socialization and development, moving them away from the negotiated, spontaneous character of play into the formal systems of adult norms and values at ever-younger ages. When they retreat from adults, however, they still display distinctive peer group dynamics, forging strong ingroup/outgroup differentiation, loyalty and identification. Peer culture thus contains informal social mechanisms through which children create their social order, determine their place and identity, and develop positive and negative feelings about themselves. Studying children's peer culture is thus valuable as it reveals not only how this subculture parallels the adult world but also how it differs from it.

Children --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Interpersonal relations in children --- Peer pressure in children --- Social interaction in children --- Social networks --- Peer Pressure --- Social Interaction --- Interpersonal Relations --- Family & Relationships --- Psychology --- Social Science --- Peer pressure --- Social interaction --- Interpersonal relations --- Family & relationships --- Social science

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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Rejection (Psychology) --- Rural families --- Foundlings --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Yorkshire (England)

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Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to expand the theory so as to cover a wider empirical domain than is usual for highly formalized linguistic theories, namely that of written and spoken discourse, while retaining its methodological precision. The book covers an array of phenomena, both from monologue and from dialogue material, relati

Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Interpersonal communication. --- Discourse analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Communication --- Interpersonal relations --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics

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Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of "crime" and "deviance," violence, Mark Cooney contends, is a naturally-occurring form of conflict found throughout history and across cultures under certain social conditions. Cooney has analyzed the social control of homicide within and across over 30 societies and interviewed several dozens of prisoners incarcerated for murder or manslaughter, as well as members of their families. Violence such as homicide can only be understood, he argues, by transcending the traditional focus on the social characteristics of the killer and victims, and by looking at the role played by family members, friends, neighbors, onlookers, police officers, and judges. These third parties can be a source of peace or violence, depending on how they are configured in particular cases. Violence flourishes, Cooney demonstrates, when authority is either very strong or very weak and when third-party ties are strong and boundaries between groups sharply defined. Drawing on recent theory in the lively new sociological speciality of conflict management, Mark Cooney has culled a vast array of evidence from modern and preindustrial societies to provide us with the first general sociological analysis of human violence.

Third parties (Law) --- Homicide. --- Interpersonal conflict. --- Violence. --- Third persons --- Contracts --- Dispute resolution (Law) --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- Conflict, Interpersonal --- Conflict (Psychology) --- Interpersonal relations --- Social conflict --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Third parties (Law).

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Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character) --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Inheritance and succession --- Fathers and daughters --- Americans --- Married women --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- Isabel Archer (Fictitious character) --- Italy --- Fiction. --- Archer, Isabel --- Isabel Archer