Interaction
in Small Groups
Readings for
Interaction in Small
Groups
“Roles in Groups,”
one page list (handout)
Bales,
R.F., one page list, p. 52 in Burke
(handout)
Suggested:
Bales, R.F., “A set of categories for the analysis of
small group
interaction,” American Sociological Review 15,
#2 (1950): 257-263
Burke,
Peter J. “Interaction in Small Groups”
Weinstein,
Deena, “Simmel On Small Groups”
(handout)
Fine, Gary Alan, “Small Groups and
Culture Creation:
The Idioculture of Little League Baseball Teams”
American
Sociological Review, 44, #5 (October1979): 733-745
Suggested:
Fine, Gary Alan, “Shopfloor Cultures: The Idioculture of
Production in
Operational Meteorology, Sociological Quarterly 47 (2006): 1-19
Felps, Will, Terence R. Mitchel, and Eliza
Byington,
“How, When, and Why Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel: Negative Group
Members and
Dysfunctional Groups,” Research in Organizational
Behavior,
27 (2006): 175-222.
Suggested:
Haythorn, William, “The influence of individual members on the
characteristics
of small groups,” The Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology 48(2)
(April 1953): 276-284
Weinstein,
Deena, "Creativity and Band Dynamics," pp. 187-199 in Eric
Weisbard (ed.) This is Pop, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2004
(handout)
Inlis, Ian, “Pete Best: History and His Story,”Journal of Popular Music Studies 11-12, 1 (1999):103-124
Ward,
James C. and Peter H. Reingen,
"Sociocognitive
Analysis of Group Decision Making among Consumers,"
The Journal of Consumer Research 17# 3 (December
1990):
245-262
Moore Jr, J.C., “Status and influence
in small group
interactions,” Sociometry
31, 1 (Mar. 1968): 47-63