“Man is by natural a social animal”
This phrase of Aristotle, give us the reason why people live in society, have relations with other people and make peer groups. But we don’t use to meet anyway with people. We use to meet people with same ages (more or less), similar social status...ultimately, people who you share something with.
That’s the reason why I think that my peer group is formed by my good friends.
We have, more or less, same ages; Most of them, have the same social status as me. But no everyone has had the same life changes, which in my opinion are very important to increase your social status, for social mobility.
In topics like politics or religion, they have very different personalities: some of them are very religious, others are unbelievers; about politics, my best friend has capitalist ideological trend, while others believe in the defence of workers’ rights.
In general, we are healthy people who like sports, although we belong to different teams and sometimes we argue, we respect each other. I used to play in a basketball team with my best friend; I have a lot of good memories about this time and I continue sharing this hobby with her.
About mechanism of social control, just respect each other. I mean, if a have a problem with anyone, I try to talk with this person in a respectful way, to solve the conflict. Personally, I think that social control it’s not necessary in friendship. I like the freedom that gives you, knowing that if you have a problem or you get in trouble, no matter how long did you spent no talking, they would be there for you!
