title: Adolescents, organized activities, and peers: knowledge gained and knowledge needed.
abstract: Borrowing a framework used to study adolescent peer groups, this chapter relates key findings from chapters in this volume to the status or reputation that peers accord a given organized activity, the tendency of activities to channel adolescents toward some relationships and away from others, and the context for peer interactions created within an activity. Then, a conceptual model is presented urging more careful consideration of specific features of a given activity and the peers who participate in them when examining peer effects on activity participants' psychosocial outcomes.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
authors.forename: B Bradford
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007899:Leisure Activities / Q000523:psychology*; D010379:Peer Group; D012923:Social Class; D058992:Social Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology