PSYC-3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Collective Farming
8 Nov 2018
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Group: 2 or more people interacting interdependently with a shared identify. Team: a group with a high degree of interdependence, requiring a high degree of coordination to accomplish is shared goals. It may include distributed or shared leadership. Goals: individuals, groups, and organizations all have goals relating to groups members" performance, group goals may not always correspond to organizational goals, individuals goal may not always correspond to group goals. Norms: collective expectations shared by members of the group about each others" behaviour, eg performance, loyalty, reward allocation, initiation, dress, social conventions. Norm formation: initial patterns of behaviour solidify into norms and are perpetuated, norms can be institutional, voluntary, or evolutionary, cognitive processes of script activation, assimilation, and accommodation. Norms are especially likely to be enforced by the group if they . Cohesiveness: how attracted individual members are to the groups, and how much they want to belong to it.
