Assignment: Social Science
i. Explain how gender differences in communication patterns might link to a) differences in communication by status (eg., how are men and women similar to high- and low-status individuals when they communicate), and b) the two dimensions of a message.
ii. Discuss Sumner's ideal types of the in-group and out-group. How does this relate to the interconnection of the task and social dimensions of groups?
iii. How does group cohesion relate to influence/conformity. What did the variations in the Asch experiments reveal about why people conform?
iv. Under what conditions are task- versus relationship-oriented leadership styles more effective? How does this relate to the three phases in the general pattern of leader emergence?
v. Detail the four phases of group development and the five factors that go into building group cohesiveness. Once a group is formed, what are the three phases of leader emergence?
vi. Discuss how the distribution of rewards in a group can affect group performance (in what situations will the equality principle, equity principle, and relative needs principle maximize performance)? How does reward distribution relate to hyper-competition?
vii. What impact does intergroup conflict have on processes internal to the group? How does social identity contribute to intragroup cohesion and intergroup conflict?
viii. How does group size influence synergy? Under what conditions do a) groups outperform individuals, and b) individuals outperform groups? How does this relate to team building?
ix. What are the consequences of information overload on group decision-making? How does this relate to collective inferential error?
x. Explain groupthink - what are the symptoms and causes; how can it be prevented? How does groupthink relate to the two types of group polarization in decision making?
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