The Factors Influencing Social Group Dynamics
1.Abstract
The area of research is on the factors that cause and propagate the current social group dynamic trends that are prevalent within the United States International University Nairobi campus ( hereby referred to as USIU).
It would be prudent to first define what this paper terms as social group dynamics. This term will be taken to include all those activities that are undertaken by students at USIU that involve interaction on a physical, emotional and mental level with other members of this institution on a peer to peer basis. The term is not limited to the activities themselves but also includes the process, degree and direction of these activities.
The research will be carried through three basic methods: Observation of social group behaviours, unstructured interviews with members of these social groups and finally information gathered from third party sources such as electronic journals and other literary materials.
The findings of our research will be first analysed from a psychological level and then branch out into various social, cultural and economic elements.
Research on this social aspect of USIU is being investigated to firstly find the reason for the formation of the many diverse groups observed as well as to demystify them and hence remove any false notions that would cause forms of social tensions.
Some may notice that the amount of hard data collected at this stage would be less than they may have expected. They may also be concerned as to why the data was not treated as empirically as is the normal standard in psychometric studies and alike. The reason is this, firstly we believe that the data taken from the perspective outlined in our abstract is far from empirical but is indeed very abstract and based on some very fundamental human reasons. This is why we decided to radiate our observations from a psychological centre outwards and explore the tendrils (so to speak) of their effects on the more outward spheres of social,
The area of research is on the factors that cause and propagate the current social group dynamic trends that are prevalent within the United States International University Nairobi campus ( hereby referred to as USIU).
It would be prudent to first define what this paper terms as social group dynamics. This term will be taken to include all those activities that are undertaken by students at USIU that involve interaction on a physical, emotional and mental level with other members of this institution on a peer to peer basis. The term is not limited to the activities themselves but also includes the process, degree and direction of these activities.
The research will be carried through three basic methods: Observation of social group behaviours, unstructured interviews with members of these social groups and finally information gathered from third party sources such as electronic journals and other literary materials.
The findings of our research will be first analysed from a psychological level and then branch out into various social, cultural and economic elements.
Research on this social aspect of USIU is being investigated to firstly find the reason for the formation of the many diverse groups observed as well as to demystify them and hence remove any false notions that would cause forms of social tensions.
Some may notice that the amount of hard data collected at this stage would be less than they may have expected. They may also be concerned as to why the data was not treated as empirically as is the normal standard in psychometric studies and alike. The reason is this, firstly we believe that the data taken from the perspective outlined in our abstract is far from empirical but is indeed very abstract and based on some very fundamental human reasons. This is why we decided to radiate our observations from a psychological centre outwards and explore the tendrils (so to speak) of their effects on the more outward spheres of social,