group pressure

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Do those educators make mistakes, often as a result of interest group pressure?

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2025

These contracting decisions are usually made by local administrators managing budgets under fiscal stress and interest group pressure, including from businesses and public sector unions.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2025

"They might have to take more time off school, or get peer group pressure that you simply don't have as an older age group," he explained.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022

But these steps are interwoven with group pressure on the one hand and personal confusion on the other.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2012

Losing the friendship and approval of comrades, being cut off from social sympathy, is a familiar form of group pressure.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra