Popularity Explained: The Social Psychology of Grade School, by Dr. A. L. Freedman
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(Agree to write an Amazon review and receive a free Kindle copy! Critical reviews are welcome. Contact me at alexfreedman@popularityexplained.com.) Popularity is a social phenomenon that re-emerges every year in every school around the world; yet, despite how common it is and how important it is to students, it has never been fully explained. Written for parents and teachers, this book is NOT a how-to-guide of tired cliches nor is it a story of personal growth and discovery. With clear language and simple logic, Popularity Explained answers how popularity works and why it emerges so predictably. Based on published scientific literature, it draws on concepts from psychology and neuroscience to explain this fascinating social phenomenon. Visit popularityexplained.com for more information.
Popularity Explained: The Social Psychology of Grade School, by Dr. A. L. Freedman- Amazon Sales Rank: #237067 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-12
- Released on: 2015-03-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Dr. A. L. Freedman has a double degree in psychology and general management from the University of Lethbridge. On graduating, he was awarded a gold medal for his academic achievements. He is currently completing his residency at the University of Alberta and is pursuing a specialty in rural family medicine. In his free time, Alex enjoys piano, writing, swimming, and travelling. He has worked in Tanzania, Mexico, and the North West Territories and has visited the USA, China, Rwanda, France, Uganda, and Nicaragua. In his own words, “People fascinate me. I feel privileged to have met so many in so many different countries.” Psychology has been, and will always be, one of his primary interests.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Knowing now what I wasn't even aware of then By Marissa This book changed the way I observed my peers. I never had words or categories for the socially graceful, and those less so, but this book broke it down in easy-to-grasp terms. The beauty of this text is how it explicitly states (then explains) so many "unwritten rules" of school, or the office.I wish I had read this book back when I worked with children and young adults a lot. The book is a useful and scientific tool to understand and hopefully to help young people who are finding their place in the world.Reading Popularity Explained also changed the way I monitored my own actions. When I knew the reason why I applied "Input of Energy" into any given interaction, it became obvious what my behaviour was reflecting. The theory permeates so many behaviours in daily life. There are insights beyond grade school popularity here.If you enjoy social psychology and have dabbled even lightly in any Western literature/film/TV set in grade school, this is the book for you. I would especially recommend this book to educators. The text is very readable, and the anecdotes reveal a reflective and humorous author.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Obviously the right answer when t comes to boy/girl relations and vice versa By begood2go There are a lot of books about popularity available but this one explains the why.Found this book after coming across a comment posted by Leona Dore on the book, "How to Be Popular: Everything You Need to Know and More." Agree with her. Unlike any other book on the subject this one does more than just rehash the same advice found everywhere else on the internet.The book is obviously well researched but sometimes it's a bit too "boy meets girl" oriented. Would have liked to read whether or not the same things apply to the LGBT community. Hopefully a future edition will address this question with research.The explanation is sound, everything makes sense, and the writing is good but it's a little to hetero-normative. 4 out of 5
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Some fresh insights into the nature of popularity. By L. Johnson Dear Abby will sell you a short pamphlet called "How to Be Popular," but a better title for that pamphlet is "How to Be Likeable" or "How to Be Someone Others Enjoy Spending Time With." It's great, timeless advice, but she essentially misunderstands what popularity really is to kids in grade school.Freedman gets it, though.This book is not a how-to guide, and it explicitly warns that popularity can't be achieved by everyone. It's an exploration of what popularity is and how we might help the kids in our care to navigate that world a little less painfully.In his book, Freedman wastes no time and presents his main points in a simple diagram at the beginning of the book: grade school students can be categorized as popular or not, and liked or not, and disliked or not, with archetypes arising at certain intersections of those attributes, such as "the sidekick" and "wannabes." The 3-dimensional organization of the diagram gives the reader a moment of head-scratching--why is likeability on two different axes?--but it becomes clear that some kids are liked by many AND disliked by many, an interesting idea that sets the tone for the book.And throughout, Freedman is trying to discover (and make sense of) how popular kids get popular and why the rest of the students put up with it.In the introduction, Freedman is honest about his relative lack of authority as a social psychologist. We are not reading a well-funded seminal work of peer-reviewed literature from a team of Ph.D.'s, and Freedman never pretends that this is the case. He is a student and tells us so. Yes, he should have done a true literature review on this topic rather than skimming the Internet to see if anyone else has tried to "formulate a unified and comprehensive explanation of popularity" (because they have) but the freshness with which he approaches the topic is valuable. And yes, there are signs that Freedman overestimates his authority and the impact and originality of his ideas: "Armed with superior maturity and wisdom, [parents and educators who read this book] are uniquely positioned to help guide dissatisfied students through the requisite processes of planning, action, and reflection required to make substantive changes [regarding popularity.]"But we can see Freedman's passion for the topic shining through all the naivety. And thankfully, Freedman does begin to draw from the social psychology literature, starting with Chapter 1, though not nearly enough; he relies too often on examples from movies and young adult novels and doesn't make an argument for why these examples should be accepted as accurate representations of reality.Throughout the main chapters, though, Freedman presents quite a few interesting observations and suggestions about the nature of popularity and how a less popular grade school kid might apply certain strategies to improve her situation. The idea of groups as attractive in and of themselves, the idea that attractiveness is multidimensional, the idea that attractiveness and physical beauty aren't necessarily the same thing, the idea of popularity causing conversational gravity, the notion of learning a clique's culture as a way into it—all these present food for thought.Some of the original concepts, like the idea of input of energy, need refinement and better support.The best of these ideas could be distilled into a list or a short blog post and be better disseminated to parents and teachers interested in helping kids handle popularity issues. But the exploration and discovery of the ideas make this book what it is. And Chapter 12 presents an interesting reflection on how the author would have applied his understanding of popularity had he only known in school what he knows now; this is interesting reading and potentially valuable for parents and teachers.There's an important idea that Freedman never touches on, however, and it may be the only serious flaw in the book. That is, perceptions of popularity get filtered through an individual's biases and memories, and we can't necessarily trust our own interpretations, observations, and memories as if they were hard data. There's no acknowledgement of the attentional bias, for example, and yet it pervades Freedman's experience and his act of writing about it.Freedman's writing is generally clear and easy to follow. The editor has done solid work here and there's little of the awkward syntax or pervasive errors that we see in most other ebooks. With more ruthless editing to remove repetition, overexplaining, and wandering passages, the book could be more concise, and passages that read like a college admissions essay could be deleted or improved. In general, if Freedman's writing were to improve, we'd see more purposeful connections among paragraphs. As readers we shouldn't have to get three sentences deep into a paragraph still wondering where the writer is going or why he's bringing up the new topic at all. But that concludes this English teacher’s nit-pickings.Do check out this book if you need advice or a fresh perspective to help the kids in your life experience less of that very real pain of unpopularity.
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