According to the author, peer pressure is one of the key elements that can lead people towards acts of great courage or great harm. The author’s ambition is to unlock the secret of using it to transform the world, thus calling this approach the “social cure,” she examines how social networks can address some of the world’s most intractable problems by giving concrete examples from the world. Rosenberg argues that the third kind of relationship, the search for status and peer approval, is the most powerful motivator of our personal behaviour and that it can be employed to remedy social ills.
By reading this book I recalled some of the recent authors who have commented on the latest development on the Arab spring. They have argued on the fact that how the social networks helped people get organised in the upheavals against the regimes. Well this might be true but was it really the peer pressure which led people to transform their way of living and their regimes. As far as I know it has not been so, it was not the peer pressure or that “cured” the society of those countries. The bad governance, the growing gap between rich and poor, thousands of young people unemployed and what is called as the violation of the human and natural rights, were the real promoters of the changes that socially cured those societies.
i'm total agree with you Eduina Arab spring is one for these examples and applications ,
YanıtlaSilfacebook and youtube were main tools for comunications in this revolution , we saw every thing at the time
it was organized , planed , by yoth
they helped each other to find there self
the economic changes mostly affects the regime of countries,eduaction level,the perception of democracy and many things.Arab spring as if it is a spring,as a late spring.one started to the other but not in same age level.Peer pressure is more on the same age level in society and starts the same addiction with the group members.Whether it effects the countries or not is a controversial issue.thanks
YanıtlaSilI don't agree at all with you guys and especially with you Eduina. I think the Arab revolution is a great example of peer pressure. It's true that Facebook and all other social networks helped people in this case but mostly in communication with each other and especially showing the words what was going on in this countries. But the peer pressure concept in this example given by you, is shown in the fact that thousand of people were protesting to this regime. I don't believe that all of them were ready to protest if it was not for the boy who burned himself in the market. This is the peer pressure given in this case, and followed by thousand of others which brought to the Arab spring.
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