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Sociogram Exercise

The document outlines a sociogram exercise aimed at analyzing the structure of a group or team. Participants are instructed to list group members, describe their behaviors and roles, identify group norms, and create diagrams of both formal and informal power relations. The purpose of the sociogram is to uncover communication patterns and sub-group dynamics within the group.

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Sociogram Exercise

The document outlines a sociogram exercise aimed at analyzing the structure of a group or team. Participants are instructed to list group members, describe their behaviors and roles, identify group norms, and create diagrams of both formal and informal power relations. The purpose of the sociogram is to uncover communication patterns and sub-group dynamics within the group.

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Sociogram Exercise
GOAL: Develop a sociogram of a group or team to which you belong.

Take a moment and reflect on the structure a group to which you belong that you meet with regularly (sports team, club,
sorority/fraternity, project group, family). Next answer the following questions which help you to describe the group’s
structure in terms of roles, norms, and inter-member relations.
1. List the members of your group by first name.
2. Describe each person’s behavior with three or more adjectives and a role label such as leader, follower, facilitator,
friendly, joker, listener, conformist, talker, or quiet, but insightful etc.
3. List some of the norms that exist in this group. Are any of these norms relatively unique or unusual? Did anyone
violate any norms and need censuring by the group?
4. Draw a diagram of the group’s power relations, placing the members with formal authority at the top, followed
by those next in status, and so on.
5. Draw a sociogram of your group that reflects patterns of interaction. Use your best judgment to determine who
interacts and does not interact with each other. Does the same person who is central also have formal
authority? Does the central person have high status?

Norms: rules or policies that guides behavior

List the members & describe their behavior in three adjectives:

• Member 1:

• Member 2:

• Member 3:

• Member 4:

• Member 5:

• Member 6:

List three critical norms of the group

• Norm 1:

• Norm 2:

• Norm 3:
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Draw a power diagram of the formal structure of the group - people who report to each other (formal structure).
__________________________________________________________________________________________

Draw a sociogram of the informal structure of the group- people who communicate with each other (informal structure)
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A sociogram is a charting of the inter-relationships within a group. Its


purpose is to discover group structure: i.e., the basic "network" of
communication patterns and sub-group organization. The relations of any
one child to the group as a whole are another type of information which
can be derived from a sociogram.

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