Anand Sanwal

@asanwal

The metalheads

The nerds

The jocks

The drama kids

Band geeks

The popular kids.

When I was in school, tribes were clear.

Talking to my daughter, today’s tribes are fuzzier.

It seems there are less rigid labels which is interesting.

I think that’s prob a good thing.

2:01 PM · Jun 2, 2025

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732788&forum_id=2...id.#48982567)

The cliques were most clear cut in late middle school through prob 10th grade. Once kids hit 16 or 17 they mature a bit and there's a blurring of the social lines.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732788&forum_id=2...id.#48983312)

Cliques are actually trivial in middle school bc they just influence your social life, not your Socioeconomic life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732788&forum_id=2...id.#48983344)

Worse still, the theory offers no empirical rigor or methodological grounding. It relies on vague generalities and anecdotal assertions, cloaked in quasi-academic language that lacks the precision and falsifiability required of serious theoretical frameworks. Rather than illuminating social dynamics, it reinforces the very insular, us-versus-them mentality it claims to explain. There is no predictive power, no testable hypotheses—just a deterministic worldview that encourages cynicism and disengagement. In short, Clique Theory is intellectual quicksand: seductive to the disillusioned, but utterly bankrupt as a tool for understanding or improving human society. It deserves not refinement, but wholesale rejection and mockery.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732788&forum_id=2...id.#48983329)