CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
The influential actions, processes, and changes that occur within and between groups over time.
GROUP DYNAMICS
Two or more individuals who are connected by and within social relationships.
GROUP
The state of being part of, or included within, a social group.
MEMBERSHIP
A set of interconnected individuals or groups; any set of nonsocial objects that are linked by rational ties.
NETWORK
Aspects of the self-concept that derive from relationships and memberships in groups.
SOCIAL IDENTITY
Groups create, organize, and sustain relationship and task interactions among members.
INTERACTION
Groups have instrumental purposes.
GOALS
4 Basic Group Goals
Generate ideas or plans
Choose a Solution
Negotiating a solution to a conflict
Executing or Performing a task
Proposed the Circumplex Model of Group Tasks
Joseph E. McGrath
Members depend on one another and influence each other.
INTERDEPENDENCE
Groups are organized with individuals connected to others in a pattern of relationships, roles, and norms.
STRUCTURE
Cohesive social arrangements of individuals that perceivers, consider to be unified wholes.
UNITY
The strength of the bonds linking to and in the group.
GROUP COHESION
Perceives cohesiveness influenced by common fate, similarity and proximity.
ENTITATIVITY
Types of Groups
Primary
Social
Collectives
Categories
Small, long-term groups characterized by face to face interaction 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.
SOCIAL GROUPS
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, religions, ethnicity, or nationality
CATEGORIES
Interactionism formula was proposed by?
Kurt Lewin
The interactionism formula.
B = f(P,E)
a supra-individual level of consciousness that links members in a psychic, telepathic connection.
GROUPMIND
Group Characteristics
Interaction
Goals
Interdependence
Structure
Unity
