Thursday, February 4, 2010
A Good Group
Some of the key points that make up a good group are members of the group must be able to work together well, ideas should be in sync with each member, the group must be able to resolve any conflicts that arise, the group should have group rules established, and as a whole and individually have good behavior together. When reading chapter 2 in the Small Group Comm book a metaphor of what a good group is came to my mind; a household family. I'm not talking about my family or anyone else's family specifically I am just talking about the general concept of a household family that I believe in. In order for a house to function smoothly there are needs to be order or rules established for example who's in charge of paying the bills, who takes out the garbage and who cleans. A family tends to be in sync with each other, they have the same values and because of that get along for the most part. Although in any household problems and conflicts do arise, but part of being a family is working through the problems and conflicts that arise. Although groups in comm classes are not families or even households that can use that as an example of how to function well together. Rules need to be established, who is gonna do what part of the assignment, when will we be meeting and what happens if a member does not do there part.
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I really like the metaphor you used for describing a good group. I think the way you compared a household family to good group was very accurate. I totally agree with that metaphor. I also liked how you compared the structure of a househould to the structure of a good group, specifically how you explained the roles that members of a household would have and how you compared those roles to the roles that any given member of a good group would have. I also like how you noted that both a good group and a good household need to have structure and their own set of rules. I just think that was a really good metaphor.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the metaphore of the family is a good way to describe what a comm group should be like.Each person has to play a role in the group to make sure that it functions properly, because if at any moment one person dose not keep up there end of the group, like in a family it would make things extreley difficult for everybody and make things close to imposible for all the members of the "family".The concept each family memeber having a job is a important concept for people who are working together,wheather it be a family or a group or whatever, agree upon and stick to.
ReplyDeleteI thought that you did a good job explaining this and I really enjoyed reading your blog post.