Group Interactions Flashcards
What is the advantage of including a specially trained cultural liaison as opposed to training physicians in cultural competency?
Adding a cultural liaison creates a triadic group, a more stable arrangement than a dyadic group. From the perspective of basic group dynamics in sociology, larger groups are generally considered more stable but less intimate, whereas smaller groups are usually considered less stable but more intimate. Dyads, two-person groups such as the physician–patient group, are unstable because either party can break the single social tie. The triad, three person groups such as the physician–patient–cultural liaison group, is considered relatively more stable because of the additional social ties.
Which research methodology involves the extended, systematic observation of a complete social environment?
Ethnographic methods are accurately described in the question as involving systematic observation of a complete social environment.
a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help. This is?
The bystander effect
Describe Front stage vs backstage self
In dramatugy, Goffman makes an important distinction between “front stage” and “back stage” behavior. As the term/concept implies, “front stage” actions are visible to the audience and are part of the performance. People engage in “back stage” behaviors when no audience is present.
Describe in-group vs out-group behavior
An in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an out-group is a social group with which an individual does not identify.
This effect describes changes in research participants as a result of their awareness that they are being observed.
The Hawthorne effect describes changes in research participants as a result of their awareness that they are being observed.
