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Resnick, David – Journal of Moral Education, 2008
This article analyses the film "Mean girls" (2004) as a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3. The film presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty. Gossip is the main transgression in this…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Peer Groups, Moral Values, Grade 11
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Horn, Stacey S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
This study investigated how social group status and group bias are related to adolescents' reasoning about social acceptance. Ninth and eleventh-grade students (N = 379) were asked to make judgments about the inclusion of individuals in school activities based on their peer crowd membership. The results of the study revealed that both…
Descriptors: School Activities, Reference Groups, Social Status, Adolescents