Evaluation Activity

Presented by:
Rodríguez Núñez Antonio
Jara Galindo Erik Alejandro
Guerrero Flores José Luis
 Introduction
✗ Groups are part of our daily life. They are part of our
social landscape, as well as our most common realities.
Groups are a fundamental part of social development
because they constitute the basic unit of operation of
any organization, institution, or community, as well as
being of great importance in our personal development.
 The existence of groups
✗ We cannot deny the place that the group concept occupies in
our lives; so much so that it is indispensable in our daily life.
The way in which we are constituting ourselves as people,
among other things, is determined by the groups of which
we are part and even of which we know with certainty that
we do not belong to them.
 Individualist perspective of the group
(Gabriel Tarde and Floyd Allport)
✗ For Floyd Allport (1985), the group concept is nothing more
than the mere sum of its parts. From this point of view, if one
wants to explain the behavior of a particular group, it is
enough only to analyze individual behavior in the social
context.

✗ Gabriel Tarde, for this author, the space where the group
makes sense achieves autonomy due to the wills that
comprise it, but the foundation of the group remains the
same: the will of the people. Ultimately, the group ends up
being the sum of those wills.
 Groupal perspective of the group (Friedrich Herbert, Emily
Durkheim,Wilhelm Wundt, Gustave Lebon and Kurt Lewin)
✗ John Fredrich Herbert started by studying people inside of the
social context in other words he studied the relationships
between people.

✗ Emile Durkheim said and I quote a person has no meaning

outside a society where the only importance is the way it thinks,
feels, and actions all of those move us to a social environment
where every human being has contact with others.
 Psychosocial vision of the group

This is divided into 3 groups!

1.- Paradigm bias: this is focused on that between smaller
groups they become bigger groups and that what makes a
society.
2.- Individualistic perspective: this type of group is made
people's interests more than anything and it can change
the way that the group lives
3.- Historicism: for this part to be part of a group it needs
to be a lot of history in place, this type of group is made
more because of the history behind it
 Differences between group, groupwork

✗ A group is the union of several elements. This union obeys to

some concrete necessity, that is to say, there is a criterion that
indicates the convenience of joining or adding things or
individuals.

✗ A work group is a group of people who carry out similar tasks

within an organization. They have in common that all members
work in the same field and carry out their duties individually.
There is usually a single boss in charge of the entire group and
the hierarchy is very clear.
 Formal and informal groups

✗ Formal group: designated work group defined by the

organization's structure.

✗ Informal group: group that is not formally structured or

determined by the organization; appears in response to the
need for social contact.
✗ Conclusions
 Resources
Rojas Arredondo, J., Torras Virgili, M. E., & Vivas i Elias, P. (2009).
Dinámica de grupos. Presented in Durango, México.
Thanks!
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