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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by pony boy

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most people think of the cool greaser who stays gold the hideously deformed [A half boy, half pony hit in the face with a shoe]

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half pony half boy never gets any love. Here's the question Isabel walks into

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school and sees pony boy and his other greaser friends on the other side of the

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preppy socials, she has engaged in what and here the potential answers....... alright

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well no, the answer the question isn't that Isabel is about to engage in [movie lights shining on a 50's school musical]

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spontaneous group sing along about the woes of teenage romance instead the

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answer has to do with two distinct groups of her peers that she's noticed. The

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greasers and the preps, but what do we call this grouping it's not called [The greasers and preps outside a school building]

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bystander intervention which is a strategy for encouraging bystanders to [Boys picking on a boy on the school bus]

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prevent violent acts like bullying and sexual assault but assuming those

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greasers stay in check we won't be needing any of that. Social philosophy

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has little to do with what we're talking about either as it's simply the study of [Boy studying social behaviour]

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social behavior with an emphasis on ethical values so while it might help us

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ask why the greasers feel the need to constantly wedgie the nerd, it won't [Greaser giving a nerd a wedgie]

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help us with this question. Prototyping is sort of similar to what we're

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describing but not quite it's when you choose the best example of something in [Woman on a beach thinking of ice cream and a fan]

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order to enhance memory if you consider your prototype or prototypical hair

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styles to be a pompadour for instance then you could compare all other hair [man thinking about a pompadour hairstyle]

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styles to it for reference useful but not our answer archetyping is even closer as

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it's a term created by young to describe universal characters or archetypes that

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we're all familiar with you know like the crazy uncle who always talks

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backwards but while it includes archetypes like the wise old man and the [Wise old man and the trickster]

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trickster it doesn't include the polo wearing prep and the tough greaser, what

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Isabel is actually engaged in is social categorization which is the organization

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of people into social groups based on schemas that in the mind. These schemas [groups of people categorized by different colors]

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serve as a form of organization that defines common characteristics of the

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group allowing us to make quick judgments which can sometimes be wrong

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and lead to stereotyping but sometimes assumptions [man sitting in a field meditating]

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might be absolutely correct like when you assume the greasers will definitely

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be the ones to light their hair on fire that's one nasty grease fire [greaser lighting hair on fire and man uses fire extinguisher]

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