Previous studies had shown that there is a direct correlation between these factors. Just as Jill J. Suitor and Rebecca S. Carter said in their study of regional gender norms, there is a direct impact on those who are though to be popular and athletic compared to those that are more studious and less outgoing. Their studies showed that there were some seventy-nine ways that a high school student could gain prestige. For boys the main way to gain was participating in some sort of varsity athletic sport. This was seen important over and over again in the study. Regionally, where you from did not make a difference since the majority surveyed had the same responses each time. Intelligence played a small role in girls saying that you gain prestige by that. Some 55.6% said that was important, however close behind was again the role of playing a sport at 52.3% (Suitor/Carter 1998, 21)

s play a very big part in how we act in high school. In reading many of the essays the fellow classmates wrote you could get a sense that each person had a very unique experience. Sally's paper was most sad and true to this study, she loved art so much but she had to compromise that just to not be made fun of. This shows that their peers sometimes ostracized those that did not partake in a sport.

a and killed himself. (Hersch 1998, 373) In contrast Chris, was an eighth grader was athletic, had many friends and was popular among his peers. As the study went on he was only able to flourish more and by the end was a star athlete and had adjusted quite well to high school life. (Hersch 1998, 371) In correlation, The Wider Circle of Friends by Peggy Giordano, showed in her study that hand-written yearbook messages were a key detector to those that were close friends compared to those that were merely acquaintances. Those that were more of an outsider category, either did not buy a yearbook or had very generic messages written too them by their peers. This study showed that even as far back as the 1920's people were able to define those that had popularity compared to those that did not.

My hypothesis in my mind was prove to be true in that people that do play sports are much likely to be popular and gain prestige compared to those th

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