GROUPS

Social Environment and Social Work

Question:
1. Can you identify
one group you are
currently in
whether in school
or in your
neighborhood?
Question:
2. Why do you
think it was
formed?

3. What are your

experiences being a
member of the
group?
Groups
“a small, face-to-
face collection of
persons who
interact to
accomplish some
purpose”
-Schiver (2015)
Groups
Two or more individuals in
face-to-face interaction,
each aware of his or her
membership in the group,
each aware of the others
who belong to the group,
and each aware of their
positive interdependence
as they strive to achieve
mutual goals.
Groups

Primary
Groups
Groups

Secondary
Groups
Groups

Formal
Groups
Groups

Informal
Groups
Groups

Natural
Groups

Formed
Groups
TYPES OF GROUPS

Task Group

Treatment
Group
TYPES OF GROUPS

Task Group

usually organized to
accomplish a specific
tasks or activities that
benefit a larger group
like neighborhood,
community or organization.
TYPES OF GROUPS

Treatment
Group

is organized to meet
people’s emotional and
social needs.
Groups Characteristics
and Structure
Group Characteristic and
Structure
Role
Role perception

Norms
Conformity

Social Loafing

Cohesiveness

Cooperation and
Competition
ONE-MINUTE PAPER

Let us do this activity

after the discussion
about ROLES.

You will identify what

particular role you
perform in the group that
you belong.
Roles Roles are expectations about what
is appropriate behavior for persons
in particular positions. As
members of groups we play
multiple roles, depending on the
current needs and demands of the
group.
Roles
Task roles
help the group to select,
define and solve problems.
This are roles that focus on
completing group’s goal.

Coordinator Evaluator-critic

Energizer Information-giver

Elaborator Information-seeker
Roles
Building and maintenance roles

helps the group to function

as a group, you help
strengthen and support the
group.

Encourager Harmonizer

Follower Gatekeeper

Compromiser Observer
Roles
Personal or Self-Centered roles

directed toward satisfying

individual’s needs without
regard for the needs and
concern of the group.

Aggressor Loafer

Dominator Special Interest Advocat

Blocker
Self-confessor
ONE-MINUTE PAPER

In one minute, write in a

sheet of paper the role
you perform in the group
that you currently
belong.
Role An Individual’s view of how he or
perception she is supposed to act in a given
situation.

Role How others believe a person

expectation should act in a given situation.
Norms Acceptable standards of behavior
within a group that are shared by
the group’s members. Standards of
behavior shared by their members
that express what they ought and
ought not to do under certain
circumstances and help members
know what to expect of others and
what is expected of them.
 Performance norms.

Types of Appearance Norms

norms
Social arrangement norms.

Resource allocation norms.

“ MYSTERY QUOTES “

“I think the reward for

conformity is that everyone
likes you except yourself.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Conformity is the jailer of

freedom and the enemy of
growth.”
― John F. Kennedy
Conformity
This is the adjustment of one’s
behavior to align with the norms
of the group. What is in or what is
out in the group.
 Normative Conformity.

Types of Informational Conformity.

conformity

Compliance

Internalization

Identification
 The tendency for individuals to expend less
Social effort when working collectively than when
Loafing working individually. This is one of the main
reasons why groups are sometimes less
productive than the combined performance of
their members working as individuals.
Cohesiveness
The degree to which members are
attracted to each other and
motivated to stay in the group.
Group cohesion acts as the social
glue that binds a group together.
Groups Development
and Change Process
Sequential-stage theories

Recurring-phase theories
Sequential-stage theories

specify the typical

order of the phases of
group development
 Origin Stage

Six stages Formation

Power and control

Intimacy

Maturation

Separation
https://clockify.me/blog/
business/stages-of-group-
development/.
Recurring-phase theories

specify the issues that

dominate group
interaction which
reoccur again and
again.
Goals and
Purposes of Groups
Groups in Social Work
Groups: Oppression and social and
economic justice

Groups also can

be effective
contexts for
addressing
oppression.
Groups can be
appropriate for
addressing
needs of
members of
diverse groups.
Groups is important in social
work practice because of the
following:

It is a venue to communicate

It provides universality

It instills hope, allow individuals

to be themselves

It promote problem solving and

creativity

It provides cohesiveness, support,

resources
One-minute paper
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AHA moments or
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