SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transformational Leadership

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Kathleen Steeves

Document Summary

Group processes refers to how certain social processes operate in group processes. A lot of our interactions take place in groups. Want to know what the common ones are between situations. Sets of people that are bound together in some way. Researcher can gain in depth understanding of what is happening in the group. Not your normal social setting; you don"t have a full understanding of what people would do in the real world. When you see an interaction take place, you can code it. How do processes play out in specific group. Size of group, how certain things affect the group. Power is the ability to obtain what we desire in a group despite resistance. Legitimacy is the sense that a social arrangement or position is the way things should be. Things we only have in relation to other people. Most talkative became most addressed by the group.