Groups, like cliques, form with other children, most likely of their own gender, who may all relate to each other in some aspect. According to Patricia Adler in Socialization to Gender Roles: Popularity Among Elementary School Boys and Girls, she states that “segregated sexual cultures have been observed as early as kindergarten” (p. 169). They looked at both genders in terms of popularity and the formation of these cliques and asked regular children (meaning they had no popularity status) to comment on any factors that helped or diminished the “status” of boys and girls who they are popular or not. more popular than them. In studying the factors that determined what would specifically make a boy supposedly popular in a school setting versus what would make it for a girl, “Eder and Hallinan (1978) compared the structure of friendship patterns between boys and girls and they found that girls have more exclusive and dyadic relationships than boys, resulting in them having greater social skills, emotional intimacy, and ease of self-disclosure” (Adler, p. 170). The way kids believe they should make friends or be known in a place like school is definitely contributed to by gender role socialization. This is true because otherwise kids would believe that it is right to move forward with behaviors and attitudes such as tenacity to obtain such a status that only