Sentence examples for of peer group from inspiring English sources

The negative influence of peer group pressure reinforces cultural isolation and promotes failure.

There are positive aspects to larger homes – more choice of peer group, more options for support and staffing, less isolation.

This suggests that sufficiently powerful managers may simply dictate their pay without undergoing the complexities of peer group manipulation.

One hypothesized cause of peer group effects is social interaction effects: an individualʼs utility from an action is enhanced by others taking the same action.

This phenomenon applies to every use of the language and is the generating force behind all forms of peer group discourse, from rhyming slang and Hinglish to financial jargon, political obfuscation and Twitterese.

It's easy to bash state education in Britain (and two of my own children are at state schools so I have plenty of experience of bureaucracy, low expectations, poor teaching,and the effect of peer group pressure from non-academic children).

Uri also runs Innovation Peers, a global network of peer groups for chief innovators.

As a result, Future Leaders promotes the creation of peer groups and the use of coaches – often a retired head – to offer support.

To support research, teaching and knowledge transfer work, he maintains an active networking profile within a number of peer groups both face-to-face and online.

Recognition of the importance of peer groups in youth behaviour has led to the use of group therapy in many correctional institutions and in communities as a preventive service or as an adjunct to parole.

A significant finding of this paper is that peer effects stand out more clearly when we use narrow, rather than broad measures of peer groups.