Alpha Ethnicity
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Group, Ethnicity, Alpha ethnicity | No Comments »Ethnic means the people. Biological reproduction is recognized in kinship forms. People trace back to a common ancestor, sometimes identified as a common place or a common experience. Start with the reproducing couple and their children, ...
The Stages of Small Group Action
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Concepts, The People, Group, Cadre Functions, Small Group, Focused Group | No Comments »For a short while I did group interviews for commercial firms trying to hone their advertising messages to consumers. I worked for two very bright psychologists, decent men making an independent living for themselves and their families. At the time ...
The Cadre-Group Nexus
Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted in Group, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »The group does not act. It only exhibits the summary pattern of the actions of its member-agents. In some part this pattern follows intention, and this intention is in the planning, decision, mobilization, coordination, and evaluation that we ...
Cadre Down, Autonomous Group Up
Saturday, October 27th, 2007 Posted in Group, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »Consider the ubiquity of the cadre function. It includes all activities and processes that contribute to a group's unity in action. Can think of it as the forms of governance: (1) legislative: what to do and how to do ...
The Group’s Cadre Functions
Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in Group, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »Take soldiers marching. Their movements precisely synchronized to match. There are a limited number of established actions (left turn, about face, etc.). The sequencing of these is not fixed. So signals are needed to identify and coordinate ...
Varieties of Group
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Group, Converge-Disperse, Sociology of Group | No Comments »A togetherness, a sharing of a space (either physically or conceptually or both). A group. The key is identification so we can distinguish those who are in from those who are not. That is the start. This has to register ...