1. Today I wore some jeans and a pretty snazzy t-shirt with the white and black nikes. The clothes I wear are mostly determined by nurture because I will dress like most of my other peers. The thing is, if I look at the clothes I was dressed in when I was little, they were pretty bad, so there isn't a real balance of nature and nurture with the clothes I wear. In the future I want to be a big salesman or marketing exec. I think my ambitions are the result of nature because my mom and dad both have professions dealing with business, so I have always wanted to have a job dealing with business or selling. There isn't much of a balance because my friends and I don't discuss jobs that we want to have, and I haven't been around people who keep talking about future professions. The sport I enjoy is gymnastics because it's what I grew up doing. My mom was on poms in college so there may be a hint of nature driving my gymnastics, but I've been doing it since I was 7, and I'm not competitive with it. I'd say I'm a recreational gymnast because it's fun for me and the nurture aspect doesn't really affect it because a lot of other gymnast are pretty annoying and not fun to be around. None of my friends do gymnastics so the nurture apsect is pretty low.
2. Adolescent social status power is very important because it is basically is the only power adolescents can have, so they need to have the most of it to be the best. If someone is very popular with high social status power, then more people will like them, which gives that person more confidence and an easier adolescence. Then if someone has low social status power, people may look down on them or even shun them from activities. Adolescents are consumed with social status power because it is the main aspect of their lives at the time being.
3. In previous generations, there were more children who were independent and had to work for everything. This gave them an easier time to be independent later in life to help them become more successful. There were less children with things just handed to them, and people weren't so concerned with babying their children. Now, many children are spoon fed and may not survive in the real world or even college. Children may also learn socialization through the television and may think things on TV are how things work in the real world. The concerns for children today are pretty valid, and we should let kids be more independent and socialize through school and sports in order for them to lead good lives.
4. Each gender today is viewed to have different traits. The traditional traits for women are viewed to be shy or passive, and men are stereotyped to be aggressive and "manly." I feel like boys growing up try to be the most manly they can, and they usually end up being fake or just looking like huge tools. I can't say I've seen anything about the impact of what females socialization has been, but when each gender talks to each other, they have different conversations than when talking to the same gender. Guys can talk about sports together, girls can talk about gossip girl, but when they talk to each other, they have to find something that they both have in common, so it is just interesting to think about.

Fight the Power

In teen culture it is necessary to fight for status power everyday. For instance, most teens are trying to have the best style and the coolest clothes. Just like those sweet uggs boots, most teenage girls have them to keep up their status power. Materials are big deciders in someone's status, like if someone has torn up clothes, they are looked down upon, but if someone is looking pretty cool or glamorous, people may look up to him or her. It also depends on what cliques you belong to like the football players are popular and have a high status power, while nerdy kids and punk kids may have low status power in the eyes of teenagers. This affects the development of teens to adults by making it that when when the teens turn into adults they may keep all these concepts of status power and fight for it throughout adulthood. It doesn't have to be this way, but it would be hard to change the way things work in the adolescent world. There isn't really anything else teens can do to obtain power in their lives, so it looks like things are going to stay the way they are.