PS276 Lecture 5: Lesson 5 Ch.5
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The functions of crowds in adolescent development according to brown. In a chapter written in 1996, bradford brown and his colleagues suggested that adolescent crowds could be described as having three central functions, which they labeled caricaturing, channeling, and contextualizing. Caricatures, as you probably know, are like cartoons in the newspaper: they provide a kind of snapshot of a person that emphasizes certain distinctive features. Thus the term caricaturing describes a kind of cognitive or stereotyping function that crowds fulfill for adolescents, particularly during this early period. In contrast, channeling describes a more social function of such crowds. The meaning of this function is simply that adolescents" choice of friends and close associates is shaped by their crowd affiliations (brown et al. , 1996). So the crowd system plays an important role in influencing how everyday social processes operate. It is also important to recognize that the crowd context changes with development, as.
