Social Life
Relationships with peers change at this time as well. This social
reorganization of social life involves
at least four major changes:
1) Peer interaction increases even more than
it did during middle childhood. High school students spend twice
as much time with their peers outside school as they do with their
parents or other adults.
2) Adolescent peer groups function with less
guidance and control from adults than do the peer groups of younger
children. Instead of being confined to local neighbourhoods, adolescent
peer groups draw their members from many neighbourhoods, and they
are more likely to find ways to ensure that no parents or other
adult authorities are observing their actions.
3) As adolescents increasingly distance themselves
from adults, most seek out members of the other sex. This gender
reorganization is a major reason for reorganization of peer groups
during adolescence.
4) Peer groups increase in size at the same
time that friendships and other close relationships increase in
intensity.
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