Peer Power by Peter and Patricia Adler

The article Peer Power by Peter and Patricia Adler says a lot society and different divisions among society. Peer Power talks about social structure, and the different roles and social statuses in society. Roles are a very important aspect of social statuses. Both authors explore social roles and statuses held within cliques at school. Many different things within cliques are ways to hand out social roles and define statuses like: Inclusion, and exclusion. Society resorts to many different things to define status and roles. The study done by Peter and Patricia Adler is crucial to show how early roles can develop in society, as well as to show how roles get defined at a young age.

Inclusion is away that society decides whether or not a person fits the role or status they want to obtain. For example to ways talked about in the article are Recruitment and Application. These two ways also showed how certain student got into a clique. A member does recruitment in order to pick who is beneficial for their clique. This is just one example of society regulating who belongs to be in which social roles. Application is also just another way regulating roles and statuses because it is away of people bringing attention to themselves to end up getting recognized. So in reality society once again picks members based on likeability and not based on credentials.

Not only does society have ways of picking members for certain roles and statuses but it also has ways of rejecting people from joining certain cliques. Within these cliques students get excluded. The study done slowly shows how social roles and statuses develop younger when kids are growing up. Out-Group subjugation is away of society and cliques to keep an eye on members of lower statuses. And In-Group Subjugation is when stronger members on society pick on the weak. Society predetermines who is and isn't strong enough for the clique.