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 * What are the characteristics of popularity and unpopularity at CCB **

**1. Womenshealth.com. **


 * Por Jenifer Goodwin **

//Reportero de Healthday. Health news February 8.//

A recent investigation suggests that teenagers that are already popular, but want to be more admired, are the ones that have a greater chance to intimidate others.

Apparently, kids believe that intimidating others will improve their reputation among their peers,  according to some studies done.

Researchers have asked 3.700 students from the eighth, ninth, and eleventh grade from North Carolina about their behavior towards other kids, and the frequency with which they were victims of physical and/or verbal aggression (making fun of or threatening), rumors or indirect intimidation (ostracism). They were also asked about how often they played the role of offenders or bullies.

The investigation crew followed the students the whole year through and also asked them to write the name or their five best friends. They used this information to determine who the most popular kids were.

They found that the kids who were in the upper part of the social hierarchy, yet not in the uppermost, were the ones who tended to be bullies and aggressive to others.

“Social status increases aggression” remarked the principal author of the studies, who is a professor at the University of California. “For many years, people perceived aggression like a reaction to difficulties to adapting, family problems or mental problems, but our investigation matches the hypothesis that aggression relates to social hierarchies. It is thought to be a way to advance. “

Actually, school bullying reached its máximum point at a 98 percentile of popularity, and descended for the most popular kids (the superior two percent), probably because they didn’t feel the need to offend others to keep their popularity.

Kids whose popularity percentile was of 98% had an average of aggression (number of peers that they offended or intimidated) that was 28% greater than the one of the students that were in the lower parts of the popularity pyramid, and 40% greater than that of the students in the higher strata of the popularity pyramid.

The study also concludes that aggression and bullying are a signal of insecurity towards social position, because they really need to be bullies in order to keep their social status. On the other hand, those who are in the uppermost part of popularity don´t need to do that, and can afford being kind, this actually makes them even more popular.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Other important findings from this study include:


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Kids who are in the lower part of the popularity pyramid don’t usually offend others cause they dont have the power to do it or just don’t feel like doing that to others.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Sixty seven percent of the students were not aggressive or bad to others. The other 33 percent who actually were bullies, ofended around 2 to 3 peers.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The maximum number or intimidated peers by any student was of nine, but the ones who were intimidated, were bothered by 17 of their peers.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Aggression is usually concentrated in a few kids.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Genre was unimportant. Both girls and boys were equally susceptible to intimidate others. The position in the social strata is determining, the higher the position, the more aggressive they became.

=MY P.O.V: This article shows the main characteristics of popularity and the percentages of people that become popular. It also explains how agression can be concentrated in certain kids.= =MY SUMMARY:= =Popularity is greatly related with bullying. This article shows that popular people can be agressors somehow and how the social hierarchy works, how can unpopularity affect peoples life and the bullyies reputation.=

2. REVISTA POLIS. Revista acadèmica de la Universidad Bolivariana. Ediciòn nùmero 11. Las pràcticas de distinciòn social. Un estudio entre jòvenes de la ciudad de Cali, Colombia. Diana Brito Ruiz. Jorge Ordòñez Valverde.

Social issues are strongly impacted by one of the strangest and most powerful social forces, the so called pecunial emulation. The sociologist Thorstein Veblen gave such a name to this social force, which is characterized by the need of social position, the need to show ourselves above others in every social group. This social force originates the most singular strategies of differentiation. In a society like ours we can evidence all sorts of social distinction, subtle or direct. They can be found in humor, fashion, dressing, esthetical preferences and all things that can turn into gestures of distance, despite and/or exclusion. The social dynamics of distinction has existed for many years, and is still evident today. It shows itself as a way to construct social identity. This dynamic is still useful for the teenagers to make part of a social group, through tribal attitudes that tell them apart from others or through the simple settlement of a hierarchy that is founded on the feeling of superiority that lead to exclusion.

MY P.O.V: This article show how can the need of position needed by people and the popularuty be found in different ways and how can teenagers can make a part of a big social group and the ffeling of supreriority can lead to exclusion.

MY SUMMARY: this shows how can teenagers change and feel superior in a social group and how can the social hierarchy is managed and the social dynamics ad the different characteristics of a popular group.

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**Clima escolar y comportamientos psicosociales en niños** **School environment and psyco-social behaviour in children** //Bibiana Andrea Castro M.//1 • //Marta Beatriz Gaviria L.//2 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">El fenómeno de la violencia en Colombia y principalmente el que se presenta en la ciudad de Medellín ha creado la necesidad de desarrollar estrategias que permitan la identificación y el adecuado manejo de los factores que la generan, en especial aquellos que afectan a los niños y jóvenes, quienes se caracterizan por su alta vulnerabilidad ante este flagelo y por tener mayor riesgo de presentar síntomas de depresión, ansiedad, baja autoestima y comportamientos antisociales. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Algunas fuentes revelan que este tipo de problemas se presentan en un 14 a 17% de los niños3 y entre un 30% de las mujeres y 76% de los hombres que en la infancia presentaron problemas de conducta persisten en la adolescencia y la edad adulta.

BY: ELENA ARANGO ULLOA 28/5/12

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">According to the phsychologist we interviewed the characteritics of unpopularity and popularity depend directly on the social context. in general terms popullarity relates to : appareance, lifestyle, family, society, capacity, skills , money and friends
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32px;">2) INTERVIEW TO DR VICTORIA EUGENIA ACEVEDO ( PHD IN PHSYCHOLOGY) **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">( see complete interview in interview to sicologist page)

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">At CCB the characteristics are very clear, taking on account that there is a prototype of popular and upopular girl or boy. Most of the popular girls wear fancy accesories and fashionable clothes, all of the same brand, they play soccer and they all have the same long hair, that in our school to be popular it is important. Popular boys all play sports, specially soccer, they all dress the same and their grades aren't so good. The unpopulars get good grades and care lot about studying, usually don't play sports at school and they are very shy. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif;">In a more general context, we think that popularity has the following characteristics:
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32px;">Previous knowledge: **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Most popular girls focus their attention on things like the way they look and are careless about academic results or personal virtues
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32px;">- It relates to physical appereance: **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Being popular demands wearing fancy, trendy and fashionable things
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32px;">- It relates to fashion **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">When your older sister or friends are in High School you get a recognition that makes you popular for something which is not even a personal merit
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32px;">-It relates to having friends or siblings in Bach **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Some specific trades can make you popular for example if you are:
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32px;">- It relates to your social status **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">- funny

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-sociable

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-over confident

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-fearless

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-bully

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-athlethic

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-artistic

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-expressive

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">-gossiper

=BY: ELENA ARANGO ULLOA 23/5/12=