Talk:Communication in small groups

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Reference
There is a big literature on this topic, both in psychology and sociology. I added one basic sociological reference.

--Pring 21:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Related to Hawthorne studies?
I've been updating the Hawthorne effect and got to the bank wiring studies, where the researchers studied how a group of workers interacted. See http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/Hawthorne.html and http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/handouts/bank_wiring.htm for more info. Shouldn't this study be referenced in this article? Dblomgren 15:52, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Group size?
The article says "Small-group communication refers to the nature of communication that occurs in groups that are between 3 and 7 individuals.". However, I'm currently taking a class on small group communication, and our textbook uses 3-17 (I would need to double check that, though) as the size for a small group. Also, according to the instructor, some sources use(d) a size of up to 20 for a small group. When I can, I'll cite my book for its size, but I'm thinking that if everyone with a book on the subject checked, they would have a different maximum size for a small group. ThomasOwens (talk) 18:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Things to Do
Things that I would like to add to or see in this article at some point:


 * Different types of small groups (primary, secondary, problem-solving, decision-making, study, therapy, committees, quality circles, focus groups)


 * Virtual Small Groups

ThomasOwens (talk) 01:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Duplicated Articles?
Section 3, Group Communication is an exact copy of section 1; this should be fixed.

Interested in improving this article?
I would like to see this article improved. It's been a decade since any edits were made. I especially like the suggestion of adding material on virtual small groups. Who else is interested in working on this article? AnaSoc (talk) 01:09, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Sociology of small groups
I started adding content to Sociology of small groups unaware that this article existed. I'm not sure if we should consider a merge. The scope of the articles is slightly different, but I'm not sure it's as simple as one containing the other.

Sociology of small groups is sort of concerned with the the social processes of society as a whole (you can see this from some of the stuff about how small groups enforce societal norms and great them). However, these processes occur *through* the communication in small groups.

Communication in small groups isn't really concerned with sociology and has more of a boundary around it. I might be inclined to create an article called "Small groups (social science)" and include bother. Thoughts welcome. I'm not really going to go for a merge yet, just sort of edit in the appropriate place. But I have "linked" the articles prominently in bother directions so there will be less duplication. Talpedia (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2022 (UTC)