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

Thatcher, Andrew and Anthony De La Cour, "Small group decision-making in face-to-face and computer-mediated environments: the role of personality," Behaviour & Information Technology, May–June 2003,  22, 3, 203–218

Moore Jr, J.C., “Status and influence in small group interactions,” Sociometry 31, 1 (Mar. 1968): 47-63