. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Da-vid who writes: …At school we are doing projects about types of families in different coun-tries. How does a typical Russian family look like? Do you have a lot of relatives? How does your family spend time together? You will help me a lot if you could tell me about the lifestyle in Russia. By the way, my elder brother got married last month…
Write a letter to David. In your letter:
– answer his questions
– ask 3 questions about his brother’s wife
Write 100–140 words. Remember the rules of letter writing
social pressure is a very difficult theme. it's a direct influence on people, as a result changing their attitudes, values of behaviors. in psychology, developed in the 1950s. the methodolody called asch paradigm(парадигма эша). which considers how individuals defied main group and the effect of such influences on opinions and beliefs. in this experiment only 5%(persent) of members were always stayed by the crowd. i also felt this pressure on myself. for example, when you want to ask the teacher a question, but you don't do it. because classmates will think you're blunt. or second example, if you're grow up in "right" family and you'd mastered the right things. some bands could use this stuff against you, they'll call you "cry-baby" or somthing. reverse psycholody at work and in the end a youngster joins the gang.
today socia media provides a massive new digital arena for peer preasure and influence. research shows that actions and influence on social media may lead to changes in identity, conviction or habits in real life for us.