Stressure Essay: The Impact Of Peer Pressure

The Impact of Peer Pressure I often think to myself “why people care so much about what other people think about them?” When you really go into depth as to what makes so many people think that way, you may come (or stumble) across a little thing called peer pressure. Peer pressure is social pressure by members of someone's friend group to do a certain thing, think a certain way, or conform to something to be accepted. We experience peer pressure from the time we get friends, but most the time we do not even notice we are being pressured. How might peer pressure impact our ability and willingness to follow our consciences? Peer pressure impacts our ability and willingness to follow our conscience, because we have grown up being conditioned to go along with what other people do, rather than what we

You can grow up being pressured to think a certain way then look back on it and be grateful for it because it made you a wonderful person. In To Kill A Mockingbird, you see Atticus trying to raise his children to be free thinkers and he hardly ever pressures them but when he does, he never does it in a harmful way, he just sends them in the right direction. For example, Scout said, “Atticus, you must be wrong...” Atticus replied “How's that?” she said “Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong...” “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions”, said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” (Lee, 139). This really teaches Scout, and the reader a lesson because everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and before you start to argue with someone that they are wrong, take a step back and think about it as a matter of opinion or