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This textbook explores group communication dynamics with the group that most students are already familiar with, peer groups. The book brings alive many existing group theories, while showcasing under-utilized theories that usefully explain the processes of the groups in which people spend most of t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunwolf, Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : Sage, ©2008.
Temas:
Age groups.
Small groups.
Groupes d'âge.
Petits groupes.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Peer Pressure.
Age groups
Small groups
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Groups that matter most (peers)
  • Defining and distinguishing peer groups
  • Premise binding every peer group
  • Embeddedness of peer groups across the life span
  • Overview
  • Critical thinking about peer groups
  • 1: Peer Group Lenses
  • Theoretical lights that illuminate peer group dynamics
  • Symbolic-interpretive perspective
  • Social comparison theory
  • Structuration theory
  • Decisional regret theory
  • Social identity perspective
  • Group dialectical perspective
  • Bona fide group perspective
  • Beyond theories
  • Using multiple theoretical or conceptual lenses
  • Critical thinking about group theories and concepts
  • 2: Peer Groups In Childhood: Learning The Rules Of Peer Play
  • Communication processes in early childhood peer groups
  • Communicating values about group rules in early childhood peer groups
  • Gender differences in childhood groups
  • Strategies children use to gain entry to playgroups
  • Leadership in children's playgroups
  • Silent childhood stresses
  • Tales of peer group rejection
  • Conceptualizing peer group interventions
  • Storytelling and peer modeling
  • Co-constructing new classroom rules
  • New theoretical lenses
  • Critical thinking about children's peer groups
  • 3: Peer Groups In Adolescence: The Power Of Rejection
  • Freaks, geeks, jocks, and stars
  • Communicating group values in the culture of adolescent peer groups
  • Strategies that adolescents use to attempt to gain entry to peer groups
  • Bittersweet peer power
  • Adolescent group boundaries
  • Conceptualizing peer group interventions
  • Behavioral journalism
  • New theoretical lenses
  • Critical thinking about adolescent peer groups
  • 4: Peer Groups In Neighborhoods: Hoodies, Homies, And Gansta Girls
  • Homeboys and hoods
  • Visual peer talk
  • Playing the dozens
  • Gansta girls
  • New theoretical lenses
  • Critical thinking about neighborhood peer groups
  • 5: Peer Groups That Super-Task: Hot Groups
  • Hot groups
  • Hot group state of mind
  • Fast, focused, and wide open
  • Conductors, patrons, and keepers of the flame
  • Standing in the fire
  • When the flame fizzles
  • Embeddedness
  • Workin' from can't to can't
  • They just wouldn't take our picture!
  • Symbolic communication
  • I gotta nickel, you gotta nickel
  • Today's cowboy, yesterday's cowboy day-before-yesterday's cowboy
  • New theoretical lenses
  • Critical thinking about peer groups that super-task
  • 6: Peer Groups As Decision Makers: Juries
  • Scene: Courthouse jury assembly room
  • Historical juries
  • Enacting group leadership
  • Structuring member communication
  • Work of jury work
  • When peers disagree
  • Regret among peers
  • Conceptualizing peer group interventions
  • New theoretical lenses
  • Critical thinking about juries and decision-making peer groups
  • Epilogue
  • Gratitudes
  • Appendix: Social science theories that help explain communication events in peer groups
  • Chapter notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the author.

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