In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests (homophily), age, background, or social status...

Peer pressure is a direct or indirect influence on peers, i.e., members of social groups with similar interests, experiences, or social statuses. Members...

Look up peer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peer or peeress may refer to: Peer, an equal in age, education or social class; see Peer group Peer, a member...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally...

JXTA (Juxtapose) was an open-source peer-to-peer protocol specification begun by Sun Microsystems in 2001. The JXTA protocols were defined as a set of...

valuation", is a process that consists of: identifying comparable assets (the peer group) and obtaining market values for these assets. converting these market...

Private peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that allow only mutually trusted peers to participate. This can be achieved by using...

Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. It commonly refers to an initiative consisting...

Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match...

individual does not identify. People may for example identify with their peer group, family, community, sports team, political party, gender, sexual orientation...

Social peer-to-peer processes are interactions among humans with a peer-to-peer dynamic. Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a term that originated from the popular...

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of...

Peers or peers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peers may refer to: Donald Peers Edgar Allison Peers, English academician Gavin Peers John Peers,...

a peer group is a group of functional units in the same layer (see e.g. OSI model) of a network, by analogy with peer group. See also peer-to-peer (P2P)...

adolescents' perceptions of group membership: peer group affiliation, the importance of peer group membership and a sense of peer group belonging to behavior...

correctly. When done in relative terms, the results are compared with a peer group. In this case, participants are asked to assess their performances in...

external environment Peer group, an entity of three or more people with similar age, ability, experience, and interest In-group and out-group Primary, secondary...

(in particular, the rejection of a child by one or both parents) and peer group rejection are associated with an increased risk for its development; however...

Peer-to-peer insurance is a reciprocity insurance contract through the Collaborative consumption concept. The aims of peer-to-peer insurance are to save...

of change process": Learner Instructional material Home environment or peer group Teacher Bloom and his graduate students considered and tested various...

issues, a person's peer group play a big role in helping them stay sober. Conditions do not need to be life-threatening, one's social group can help deal with...

hereditary peers shall consist of: 2 peers to be elected by the Labour hereditary peers 42 peers to be elected by the Conservative hereditary peers 3 peers to...

will attempt to contact a peer group directly. If no peer group exists, the USCIS will make a decision without a peer group consultation. The USCIS will...

their gender. A peer group can be identified as a group of individuals who are similar in age and social class. By joining peer groups, children begin...

Shandur. He has done a BBC Radio 4 comedy series called Alex Edelman's Peer Group. As a comedy writer, he has contributed to the American television shows...

music band; construction crew; subunit of a tribe as band society. Peer group: A group with members of approximately the same age, social status, and interests...

rather than delinquent peers causing someone to start offending. Furthermore, there is the question of how the delinquent peer group initially became delinquent...

form of corporal punishment, hazing or retaliation conducted within a peer group, most frequently within the military or military academies. The victim...

across the kibbutz system, only 14 were between children from the same peer group. Of those 14, none had been reared together during the first six years...

processes in relation to best-practice companies' processes, usually within a peer group defined for the purposes of comparison. This then allows organizations...