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Chapter 6

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Regulate group behaviors and influence individual judgements.

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NORMS

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Describe how most members act, feel, and think

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Descriptive

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Shared among group members, rather than personal, individual-level beliefs; group level; tend to be shared.

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Consensual

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Define which behaviors are considered “bad” or wrong and which a “good” or acceptable.

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Injunctive

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following the orders of the leader; Set the standards for expected behavior; what should be done, what is right.

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Prescriptive

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Identify behaviors that should not be performed; negative suction.

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Proscriptive

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Describe the unwritten rules of conduct in the group.

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Informal

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Often so taken for granted that members follow them automatically.

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Implicit

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Emerge as members reach a consensus through reciprocal influence; shared rules.

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Self-generating

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Once they develop, resistant to change and passed from current members to new members; stablished norm then it can be pass to the other
generation.

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Stable

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certain role in one group.

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ROLES

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An increase in the number of roles in a group, accompanied by the gradual decrease in the scope of roles as each one becomes more narrowly defined and specialized.

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Role Differentiation

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Any position in a group occupied by a member who performs behaviors that promote completion of tasks and activities. Provide solution to the task and accomplish it; disagreement starts.

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Task Role

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Any position in a group occupied by a member who performs behaviors that improve the nature and quality of interpersonal relations among members;

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Relationship Role

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it is which member emphasize the self need rather than group.

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Individual Role

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group will survive with two basic demand (1. Accomplished of the task 2. Relationship among members should maintain)

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Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheat

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Theory of Group Socialization by

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Richard Moreland and John Levine

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  • Unclear expectations about the behaviors to be performed by an individual occupying a particular position within the group; unclear role on group; role stress.
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Role Ambiguity

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  • A state of tension, distress, or uncertainty caused by inconsistent or discordant expectations associated with one’s role in the group; multiple role then conflict arise, role overload; should have a clear role, play in a group.
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Role Conflict

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  • occurs when individuals
    occupy multiple roles within a group and the expectations and behaviors associated with one of their roles are not consistent with the expectations and behaviors associated with another of their roles; certain role should meet.
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Interrole Conflict

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  • occurs when the behaviors that make up a single role are incongruous, often resulting from inconsistent expectations on the part of the person who occupies the role and other members of the group; role is not align, result in inconsistent.
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Intrarole Conflict

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  • The degree of congruence between the demands of a specific role and the attitudes, values, skills, and other characteristics of the individual who occupies the role; role should be fix in individual to be accept in the position.
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Role Fit

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Solutions to manage role stress:

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  • Makerole requirements explicit and specific.
  • Job descriptions for each role should be conveyed properly; role should be deliver properly.
  • Provide employees feedback about expected behaviors of them; feedbacking
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connection of the member to build network

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INTERMEMBER RELATIONS

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The study or relations among individuals in groups.

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Social Network Analysis (SNA)

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  • The degree of connectedness of group’s members, as indexed by the number of actual ties linking members divided by the number of possible ties; link to one another the impact of the group
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Density

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  • The number of ties between group members; the group’s degree centrality is the average of the direct connections among group members. (Ex. person 20)
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Degree Centrality

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Number of links TO others

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Outdegree

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  • Number of links FROM others
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Indegree

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  • The degree to which a group member’s position in a network is located along a path between other pairs of individuals in the network. (Ex. person 1)
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Betweenness

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  • The distance, in terms of ties, of an individual from all others in the network. (Ex. person 12)
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Closeness

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The gradual rise of some group members to positions of greater authority, accompanied by decreases in the authority exercised by the other members.
* stable variations in members’ relative dominance and authority have such names as ranking.

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Status Differentiation

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—– status vs. ——status

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Claiming, Perceiving

35
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Who is behind Expectation-states Theory?

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Joseph Berger

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  • task specific
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Specific Status Characteristics

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  • general personal qualities
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Diffuse Status Characteristics

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Being the only member, representative of a certain social category

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Solo status

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Sociometric Differentiation- The development of stronger and more positive interpersonal ties between some members of the group, accompanied by decreases in the quality of relations between other members of the group.
* Reciprocity or mutual liking
* Transitivity or the passing of a relationship
from one element to the next.
* Clusters or cliques or subgroups within the larger group

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Sociometric Differentiation

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assumes that interpersonal relationship can either be balanced (without stress) or unbalanced (with stress)

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Balance Theory

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Who is the person behind Balance Theory?

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Fritz Heider

42
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Regular patterns of information exchange among members;

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COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

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  • a position located at the crossroads (the hub) of communication
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Centrality Effects

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Roughly equal number of channels at each position

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Non-Centralized

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or mutual liking

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Reciprocity

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or the passing of a relationship from one element to the next.

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Transitivity

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or cliques or subgroups within the larger group

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Clusters

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Information Saturation

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Upward vs. Downward Communication

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is a powerful conceptual and methodological tool that provides a clearer understanding of the unseen group structures that underlie recurring patterns of interpersonal behaviors in groups.

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Systematic Multiple Level Observation of Groups (SYMLOG)

50
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  • Is this member active, outgoing, and talkative, or passive, quiet, and introverted?
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Up versus Down, or dominance/submissiveness

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  • Is this member warm, open, and positive or negative and irritable?
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Positive versus Negative, or friendliness/unfriendliness

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  • Is this member analytic and task-oriented or emotional, untraditional, and (in some cases) resentful?
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Forward versus Backward, or acceptance/non-acceptance of authority

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