首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Come on — Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we he
Come on — Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we he
admin
2015-06-22
35
问题
Come on — Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words "peer pressure". It usually leads to no good — drinking, drugs and casual sex. But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the world.
Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of examples of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called "Rage Against the Haze" sets out to make cigarettes uncool. In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as "LoveLife" recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.
The idea seems promising, and Rosenberg is a perceptive observer. Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology. "Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!" pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers — teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in. Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.
But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive. Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful. The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it is presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long. "Rage Against the Haze" failed once state funding was cut. Evidence that the "LoveLife" program produces lasting changes is limited and mixed.
There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits as well as negative ones spread through networks of friends via social communication. This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.
Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions. It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates. The tactic never really works. And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.
The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is______.
选项
A、harmful
B、desirable
C、profound
D、questionable
答案
D
解析
态度题。最后一段提到“Far less certain,however,is how successfully experts andbureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.”确定同伴压力是否奏效,不确定因素很大,和D项提到的“有疑问”的一致。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/m874777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
AmericanPrivateClinicsTransformTowardtheMedicalInstitutionsAquietrevolutionistransforminghowmedicalcareisde
TheSocialChangesTransformedToday’sGrandparentsThegrandhasbeentakenoutofgrandparent,leavinggrandparentswitha
CaloriesandHumanHealthDieting,accordingtoanoldjoke,maynotactuallymakeyoulivelonger,butitsurefeelsthatw
【F1】Medicinetodayfocusesprimarilyondrugsandsurgery,genesandgerms,microbesandmolecules,yetloveandintimacyarea
Acommonplaceobservationofweatherfluctuatingbetweenasevereheatwaveandafairlycooldaymaybewhatdoomsustoclimat
【F1】Thehypothesisthatmoraljudgmentsareemotionallybasedcanexplainwhytheyvaryacrossculturesandresisttransformatio
Istheprofessionalbookreviewerold-fashioned?InarecentHarvardBusinessSchoolstudyofnonfictionreviews,assessmentsin
TheschoolboardlistenedquietlyasJohnreadthedemandsthathisfollowers______for.
Thedyingsoldierhadthemessage______straighttotheheadquarters.
Nearlyeverybodycheats,butusuallyonlyalittle.ThatisoneofthethemesinDanAriely’snewbook"The(Honest)TruthAboutD
随机试题
防腐剂
煮沸水不可以降低水的硬度。
肝破裂的手术原则是
A.大定风珠B.固真汤C.缓肝理脾汤D.十全大补汤E.逐寒荡惊汤治疗慢惊风阴虚风动证.应首选
根据《建设工程施工合同(示范文本)》,下列合同文件内容不一致时,优先解释等级最高的文件是()。
按照《建筑工程建筑面积计算规范》的规定,屋面上部有围护结构的电梯机房,()计算建筑面积。
有个地方的博物馆免费开放三年而无人问津,领导要你做一个调研并给出建议,以做参考,你会怎么做?
有一个盒子里有100只分别涂有红、黄、绿三种颜色的球。张三说:“盒子里至少有一种颜色的球少于33只。”李四说:“盒子里至少有一种颜色的球不少于34只。”王五说:“盒子里任意两种颜色的球的总数不会超过99只。”以下哪项论断是正确的?()
某交换机的配置命令如下,根据命令后面的注释,填写下列空缺内容,完成配置命令。Swich(config)#(1)将交换机命名为Sw1Sw1(config)#interfacevlan1Sw1(config)#(
Whohasgotapen?
最新回复
(
0
)