Hostility between peer groups

Hostility refers to the violent actions or aggressive relations between peer groups. Children display hostility at a fairly early age. There are two points of view such as- Learning to be prejudiced; Prejudiced individuals refuse to consider the actual behavior of the target of their prejudice. They may mistreat the targets of their prejudice, but the usual reaction is one of rejection or avoidance. There are huge of study- Children display prejudice at a fairly age. An ingenious experiment designed to measure prejudice typical children in kindergarten and primary grades was designed by Lerner 1975. The prejudice toward obese people begins in early childhood. The prejudice is evidently a culture one, for obesity is not considered to be a negative trait in many other cultures. A further analysis by Lerner also show the effect of interrex prejudice, for the children brought their self pictures closer to picture of members of their own sec than to pictures of members of the opposite sec. This avoidance of opposite sex children increase with each year from kindergarten through the third grade and was more pronounced in boys than in girls. Racial Prejudice According to S.R. Asher 1977, he explored the interesting question of the relative effects of racial and other sex prejudice on the behavior of third grade children. The researchers indicated their willingness to work or play with each of the other children in their class. The socio metric ratings confirmed the results of the study by Lerner and others (1975) described above. Third grade children expressed a much greater degree of liking for own sex children than for those of opposite sex, with the difference being greater for boys than for girls. They also tended to prefer children of their own race, but only slightly more than those of another race. An analysis by Carter and others 1975 of the relationship between students preferences and the grade point average of their classmates indicates a marked preference for classmates with higher GPAs, indeed, GPA was a more important determinant of peer preference than was either race or sex. An investigation some of the ways children learn to be prejudiced, Donald L. Mosher and A. Scodel 1960 measured the degree of ethnic prejudice expressed by sixth and seventh grade children. It was significantly correlated with the degree of prejudice expressed by the children’s mothers.