Visibility, Vulnerability, Development, and Context: Ingredients for a Fuller Understanding of Peer Rejection in Adolescence.

Brown, Bradford B.

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Publication Date: 1996

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Visibility, Vulnerability, Development, and Context: Ingredients for a Fuller Understanding of Peer Rejection in Adolescence.

Brown, Bradford B.

Journal of Early Adolescence, v16 n1 p27-36 Feb 1996

Argues that researchers must broaden conceptual frameworks, broaden samples, and broaden methods used in the study of rejected peers in light of Merten's work (PS 524 830). Suggests that conceptual frameworks must consider the full range of characteristics that contribute to peer status, and be sensitive to contextual factors that shape peer group systems and constrain mobility within such systems. (DR)

Descriptors: Context Effect, Early Adolescents, Ethnography, Individual Characteristics, Peer Acceptance, Peer Groups, Peer Relationship, Rejection (Psychology), Research Design, Social Status

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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