Peer relationships are highly salient during early adolescence, especially during the first year of middle school. As a result, coolness (a facet of peer status) is prioritized and increasingly associated with aggression. Recent research indicates the relationship between peer status (coolness) and aggression is moderated by social goals (popularity, dominance, intimacy) and gender. Leadership among peers is also salient during early adolescence, although it is understudied in comparison to peer status (coolness). Leadership is worth additional investigation, as youth leaders are considered interpersonally competent and possess the social skills necessary to influence peer behavior. Research is needed to examine the extent to which peer status (coolness) and leadership are similar yet distinct constructs and the extent to which peer status and leadership influence subsequent aggression. Research is also needed to determine if the relationship between leadership and aggression is moderated by social goals and gender, as this may have implications for understanding antecedents to aggression. The current study examined the following: (1) the associations among peer-reported leadership and coolness in the fall with peer-reported aggression (overt and relational) in the spring of sixth grade, (2) the extent to which social goals (popularity, dominance, and intimacy) and gender moderate relations of leadership and coolness in the fall with aggression in the spring of sixth grade, (3) and the extent to which mean-level gender differences and study variables change across time. The sample was comprised of sixth-grade students from three middle schools in an urban, ethnically diverse setting (N = 347). Results revealed a significant association across both time points for leadership and coolness. Moreover, social goals and gender moderated the association between coolness, leadership, and aggression.

The purpose of the study was to determine the practicality of the theory that the teacher's highest function is to help each pupil to develop an agreeable, liberated, concordant, dynamic personality. In other words, the writer was interested in finding out whether it is possible, as far as can be determined, to develop an unpopular child to such an extent that he will be more social, more likable, and, in the end, more acceptable by his school group.

The following study was undertaken to discover some of the ways in which high school students who are popular differ from those who are not so popular.

It is the purpose of this study to contribute some scientific data toward the construction of a more valid rating scale for use in the classroom situation.

Musicians who die young often become more famous after their death and moreover, this popularity sometimes continues to exist years or even decades afterwards which consequently has a chance to turn these musicians into legends. Research has shown that the development of media and the growing celebrity culture have impacted the ways individuals perceive famous people. The fans may often view celebrities as a part of their personal lives which may be a reason for them to strive for maintaining the presence of deceased artists by, for instance, listening to their music or posting content connected to them on social media. This study aims to determine the ways in which individuals mourn and grieve over their idols, the role of media in this process and as a result, how the presence of deceased musicians is maintained in a long-term by the forces of fans, media or other heritage left after the artists. With this in mind, the research questions of this study cover such aspects as the extent to which fans’ lives are affected by their idol, common practices of mourning and grieving over deceased musicians, the role of media in this process, and the role of the audience in the growing popularity of deceased musicians. After exploring previous research and preparing the theoretical framework for the study, an online survey was distributed to the fans of the chosen deceased musicians. Respondents were asked questions about celebrities and their deaths, the ways in which the participants were coping with loss, the role of media in this process, and the reasons for them to continue getting back to the art created by those musicians. Analysis of the responses demonstrated that the development of media has made it easier for the fans to share their feelings, discuss difficult topics, and open up about their struggles online. Additionally, it turned out that despite a strong emotional connection with the late musicians, when listening to their music, the fans, in fact, were reconnecting not with the musicians, but with their own past that the music reminded them of. Given these points, it may be concluded that media performs an important function for individuals who have experienced loss through granting them a chance to speak openly about their feelings or struggles, connect with other adherents, and even more so, connect with their true selves.

Dissertation The Impact of the Internet on the Socio-cultural System focuses on a research method of shared orientation in a new (in the complexity of human existence) environment of a global context, which is provided in particular by communication systems based on new media technologies. A study of the influence of media technologies, which grow on the basis of connection via the internet, on the nature of the society represents an extension of the original mediological interest in everyday communication to the broader socio-cultural view. Study of media communication takes into account the type of social interaction - purpos 'media logic' own specific media and media change leads to the corresponding social changes. New media and internet, as a potential carrier of social change, as seen through a combination of media development - primary, secondary, and especially the mass media and cultural context at the level of specifically human way of adaptation to the external environment, in particular its social manifestation, and interaction at the individual level. Information sources and methods correspond to thematic combination, are reflected in the method itself and the selection of literature and research tools, both in conjunction qualitative research related to the interpretation of media...

Context: This study compares the popularity and the performance of two DBMS. The two systems are SQL and NoSQL. The objective of the study is to determine which DBMS junior developers should learn first, in order to provide a head-start to their future career. Methods: To determine the most popular DBMS, surveys are collected from the Internet and are meta-analyzed. In order to determine the best performing DBMS, a SLR method that leads to a meta-analysis is conducted and tests the execution time of the read operation. Results: The research findings suggest that SQL is a more popular DBMS than the NoSQL system. This is verified statistically through the Fisher-Freeman-Halton Test, p <.001. As far as performance goes, the SQL DMBS performs a bit better compared to the NoSQL system if descriptive statistics is considered for 100 (M=12.4, SD=19.11),(M=174.4, SD=284.6) and 1000 (M=50.77, SD=113.5), (M=228.8, SD=276.6) records. However, once the t-test is performed it reveals that there is no statistical significance. Thus, the statistical test suggests that both DBMS perform equally well for both 100 and 1000 records t (8) = 1.27, p = .24 and t (8) = 1.11, p = .3 with a small effect size Cohen’sd, (d1=0.27) and (d2=0.28) respectively. Conclusion: Based on our research results and accounting for the importance of the date that this study has been conducted (2021), we recommend that junior developers should focus on learning a SQL DBMS first as their primary backend skillset for the foreseeablefuture.

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This study examines the rise in popularity of the French comics series "Astérix le Gaulois" through a production-of-culture lens in an effort to uncover how industry evolution and organization, protectionist legislation, marketing, advertising, branding, and consecration by the media worked interdependently to catapult Astérix, the series' protagonist, into stardom by the middle of the 1960s. In so doing, this study forcefully argues that elements external to the text itself greatly facilitated, and in some ways determined, the series' quick and dramatic rise in popularity in France by 1966. The predominance of American and Belgian comics into the 1950s and the moral turn towards all things "100 % français" enabled the success of Pilote, the French-language, French-themed magazine launched in 1959 and in which "Astérix" first appeared. By the early 1960s, Pilote's faithful readership helped make the publication of "Astérix" in album format a resounding success. Simultaneous radio exposure and extensive product merchandising further promoted "Astérix" to a new, vast, and diverse comics market comprised of children and adults alike. Media consecration marked the final step in Astérix's meteoric rise in popularity in France. Institutionalization of the comics series by the national press during the 1960s transformed Astérix into an emblem of national importance, created celebrities out of the series' co-creators, and even helped legitimize bande dessinée, or comics, as a French cultural form worthy of "serious" consideration. / Master of Arts