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Conflict, Power, and Status in Groups
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Conflict, Power, and Status in Groups

Michael J Lovaglia, Elizabeth A. Mannix, Charles D. Samuelson, Jane Sell and Rick K. Wilson
Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp.139-184
SAGE Publications, Inc
2005
DOI: 10.4135/9781483328935.n5

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Abstract

2006 Ernest Bormann Research Award (from the Group Communication Division of the National Communication Association) —Dennis S. Gouran, People live in groups, work in groups, and play in groups. As a result, groups have been a focus of study across the social and behavioral sciences. Although it has been actively pursued within individual disciplines and sub-disciplines, group research as a whole remains fragmented and discipline-bounded. brings together the threads that unify the field of group research. The book is designed to define and describe theoretical perspectives on groups and to highlight select research findings within those perspectives. In this text, editors Marshall Scott Poole and Andrea B. Hollingshead capitalize on the theoretical advances made over the last fifty years by integrating models and theories of small groups into a set of nine general theoretical perspectives. is the first book to assess, synthesize, integrate, and evaluate the body of theory and research on small groups across disciplinary boundaries. Offers an interdisciplinary approach to group research with contributions from authors across many fields; Includes nine theoretical perspectives, each written by an author team composed of experts who have conducted independent research within that perspective; Organizes chapters in a similar format to easily compare the basic premises and findings examined across the various perspectives covered; Concludes with a chapter that compares and contrasts the nine perspectives in the form of seven “touchstones”- boundaries/embeddedness; competition, conflict and interdependence; causality; regulation of interaction; risk/uncertainty; cognition/intentionality, and time summarizes the current state of group theory and research in a brief volume that can be used by researchers and in graduate courses that will train the next generation of group scholars. It is an excellent supplementary textbook for graduate courses on small groups in many disciplines, including Communication, Psychology, Management, Sociology, Political Science, and Education.

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