Structure: How Is the Group Organized?

• Group Structure- the organization of a group, including the members,

their interrelations, and their interactions

• Role - socially shared set of behaviors, characteristics, and responsibilities

expected of people who occupy a particular position or type of position
within a group; by enacting roles, individuals establish regular patterns of
exchange with one another that increase predictability and social
coordination

• Norm- consensual and often implicit standard that describes what

behaviors should and should not be performed in a given context
Goals: What Is the Group’s Purpose?
Origin: Founded or Formed?
• Planned Groups - formed by its members or an external
authority for some purpose
• Civil rights groups, commissions committees, expeditions, juries, legislative
bodies

• Emergent Groups - come into existence spontaneously

• Audiences at events, bystanders at a crime scene, crowds, customers at a club
Unity: How Cohesive Is the Group?

Group Cohesion - solidarity or unity of a group resulting

from the development of strong and mutual interpersonal
bonds among members and group-level forces that unify the
group
Entitativity: Does the Group Look Like a Group?

Donald Campbell - coined the term entitativity to describe

the extent to which a group seems to be a single, unified
entity—a real group

• Similarity
• Proximity
• Common Fate