CH1 INTRO TO GROUP DYNAMICS Flashcards
Two or more individuals who are connected by and within social relationships
Group
5 Qualities of a Group
- Interaction
- Goals
- Interdependence
- Structure
- Unity
5 Qualities of a Group
- Interaction
- Goals
- Interdependence
- Structure
- Unity
Groups that create strategies they will use to accomplish their goals.
Generating — Planning Tasks
Create altogether new ideas and approaches to their problems
Generating — Creativity tasks
Make decisions about issues that have correct solutions
Choosing — Intellective task
Questions that can be answered in many ways
Choosing — decision-making tasks
Resolve differences of opinion among members regarding goals/decisions
Negotiating — cognitive-conflict tasks
Resolve competitive disputes among members
Negotiating — mixed-motive tasks
Do things including taking part in competitions
Performing — competitive tasks
Work together to create products or carry our collective actions
Performing — performance tasks
complex of roles, norms, and intermember relations that organizes the group
group structure
consensual standards that describe what behaviors should and should not be performed in a given context
norms
the quality of “groupness” or solidarity
group cohesion
how unified the group appears to be to the perceiver
entitativity
Types of Groups?
- Primary groups
- Social groups
- Collectives
- Categories
Small, long-term groups characterized by face-to-face and high levels of cohesiveness, solidarity, and member identification
primary groups
Small groups of moderate duration and permeability characterized by moderate levels of interaction among the members over an extended period of time, often in goal-focused situations
social groups
Larger groups whose members act in similar and sometimes unusual ways.
Aggregations of individuals that form spontaneously, last only a brief period of time, and have very permeable boundaries.
collectives
Aggregations of individuals who are similar to one another in some way, such as gender, ethnicity, religion, or nationality
categories
focused on the person in the group; explore the behavior of each member
individual-level of analysis
assumes each person is “an element in a larger system, group, organization, or society; reflect the state of the larger system and the events occurring in it.”
group-level of analysis
hypothetical unifying mental force linking group members together.
collective conscious (groupmind)
hypothetical unifying mental force linking group members together.
collective conscious (groupmind)
assumes that the behavior of people in groups is determined by the interaction of the person and the environment.
interactionism
a unified system with emergent properties that cannot be fully understood by individual examination.
gestalt
a standard that describes what behaviors should and should not be performed in a group.
group norms
Group development theory of Bruce Tuckman
- Forming phase
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Adjourning
The multilevek persoective of qualities, characteristics, actions of individual members
micro-level factors
multilevel perspective of group level qualities like cohesiveness, size, composition, and structure
meso-level factors
multilevel perspective of group level qualities like cohesiveness, size, composition, and structure
meso-level factors
multilevel perspective of qualities of the larger collectives that enfold the groups
macro-level factors
4 basuc group goals according to circumplex model of group tasks by mcgrath
- generating
- choosing
- negotiating
- performing/executing
