The term "peer culture" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the social norms, behaviors, and beliefs that are shared among a group of peers or individuals of similar age, status, or background. Example: The strict dress code at the private school often clashes with the students' peer culture, as they prefer more casual and trendy outfits.
Peer culture on the street seems to do the same".
As for how to change the peer culture, I don't have an easy answer".
The two anthropologists theorized that a long history of discrimination helped foster what is known in sociological lingo as an oppositional peer culture.
Boys and young men outdo one another in a dizzy spiral of audacity, according to the complex dynamics of a peer culture we don't see, can't read.
And prominent black figures have to weigh in against the antiacademic and even "oppositional" peer culture that Gordon and others say is retarding black progress.
Any emerging adults who want to abide by traditional strictures against premarital sex, he says, "face a very difficult peer culture in which to live".
This happens in peer cultures, but it only accounts for a fraction of the peer-to-peer aggression in schools and is only symptomatic of a larger problem.
Differences in styles of parenting towards the sexes [6] and in peer cultures within sex-segregated peer groups [42] may enhance the development of different interests and skills in boys and girls.
Moreover, there may be a conflation of individuals who are prone to violence because of childhood experience, peer cultures that exert peer pressure to commit violence, and social norms within the gender regimes, which legitimate violence.
The age at which a teenage girl starts to become sexually active depends a lot on her social environment -- peers, culture and so on.
It is clear to us that unless we challenge the "institutional peer group culture" then very bright black boys will never achieve their potential.
