franu PSYC3340 Week 3 Individual Assignment Part 2: Group Structure

Week 3 Individual Assignment Part 2: Group Structure

Work on this assignment by yourself. Please click here to see the Grading Rubric for Module Writing Assignments.

Instructions: Reflect on the structure of a group to which you belong. This group can be one that meets regularly in a work or social setting, or a subgroup of the students within a class. (You can even consider your family’s structure). Describe the group’s structure in terms of roles, norms, and intermember relations.

Identify your group and list the members by first name.

Describe each person’s behavior with 3 or more descriptive words or phrases. These may be adjectives or a role label such as leader, follower, Mr. Friendly, deviate, joker, silent member, conformist, high talker, or brains.

List some of the norms that exist in your group. Are any of these norms relatively unique or unusual? Has anyone ever violated any of these norms? Were they censured by the group?

Draw a diagram of the authority relations in the group, placing the leader at the top, followed by those next in status, and so on.

Draw a sociogram of your group that reflects patterns of attraction (e.g., are members showing any in-group bias, for instance? A favoritism toward those with whom they share characteristics with, such as age; race, gender, etc.). Use your best judgment to determine who likes and dislikes whom.

Draw a diagram of the communication network in your group. How efficient is the communication in the group? How can it be changed to be more effective? Ideas for communication networks are in the textbook in the chapter on group structure. Draw lines between members who communicate with each other. Use an arrow if the communication is in one direction.

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