Thursday, March 25, 2010
Peer Pressure
Today we watched Freaks and Geeks again. In this episode, Lindsey convinced her parents to leave her and her brother, Sam, home alone while they went out of town. Lindsey made the mistake and told her friend Daniel that she was going to be home alone. Daniel convinced her to have a party and get a keg of beer. Sam heard and decided that he and his friends were going to get non-alcoholic beer and trade it with the real beer. During the party, all of the "underage drinkers" were drinking this fake beer and pretending to get drunk. This just wade them seem like fools because they were victims of the Placebo effect. These kids were saved when Sam's friend called the police to get everyone out. Peer pressure is a very big deal now because either people are very persuasive, or people are too promissive. Teens are stargting to drink a lot more now because of peer pressure. I remember something this week said that the kids that dont give into peer pressure will be the geeks later in their life because they didn't take a chance.
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Careful of the grammar: Made,Permissive and starting.
ReplyDeleteWhen we discuss this episode in terms of sociology, I like to think of the placebo effect from the alcohol as another agent of socialization. They act the way they think they should with alcohol.
oh and one more thing -
ReplyDeleteI don't think its true that kids that don't give in now will be geeks later - in fact, in my experience, it is the opposite. The ones who give in the most now, end being uncool later - less successful, more bustouts later.