{"id":8703,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/peer_group\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:36","slug":"peer_group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/peer_group\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any group in which most members have roughly equal status within the confines and functions of the group. &nbsp;The role of the peer group in the development of personality was brought to the fore in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/judithrichharris.info\/tna\/bio.htm\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/judithrichharris.info\/tna\/bio.htm?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judith Rich Harris<\/a>&nbsp;s book&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/judithrichharris.info\/tna\/\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/judithrichharris.info\/tna\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nurture Assumption<\/a>&nbsp;published in 1998 and revised in 2009 in which she claimed that parental socialization has relatively little effect compared to that exerted by the peer group during adolescence. &nbsp;It proved to be a controversial claim subjected to a range of criticisms such that it did not take account of the benefits derived from early intervention. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ecological_systems_theory\">Ecological systems theory<\/a>, <a href=\"friendship\">Friendship<\/a>, <a href=\"non-shared_environmental_influences\">Non-shared environmental influences<\/a>, <a href=\"social_network\">Social network<\/a>, <a href=\"socialization\">Socialization<\/a>, <a href=\"sociometry\">Sociometry<\/a>, <a href=\"parenting\">Parenting<\/a>, <a href=\"peers\">Peers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any group in which most members have roughly equal status within the confines and functions of the group. &nbsp;The role of the peer group in the development of personality was brought to the fore in&nbsp;Judith Rich Harris&nbsp;s book&nbsp;The Nurture Assumption&nbsp;published in 1998 and revised in 2009 in which she claimed that parental socialization has relatively &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/peer_group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peer group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}