TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedkin,Noah E.
AU  - Johnsen,Eugene C.
TI  - Social influence network theory: a sociological examination of small group dynamics 
T2  - Structural analysis in the social sciences
SN  - 9780511976735 (ebook)
AV  - HM736 .F75 2011
U1  - 302.3/4 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Small groups
KW  - Research
KW  - Social influence
KW  - Social psychology
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Group dynamics: structural social psychology; 2. Formalization: attitude change in influence networks; 3. Operationalization: constructs and measures; 4. Assessing the model; Part II. Influence Network Perspective on Small Groups: 5. Consensus formation and efficiency; 6. The smallest group; 7. Social comparison theory; 8. Minority and majority factions; 9. Choice shift and group polarization; Part III. Linkages with Other Formal Theories: 10. Models of group decision making; 11. Expectation states and affect control; 12. Individuals in groups; Epilogue; Appendices
N2  - Social influence network theory presents a mathematical formalization of the social process of attitude changes that unfolds in a social network of interpersonal influences. This book brings the theory to bear on lines of research in the domain of small group dynamics concerned with changes of group members' positions on an issue, including the formation of consensus and of settled disagreement, via endogenous interpersonal influences, in which group members are responding to the displayed positions of the members of the group. Social influence network theory advances a dynamic social cognition mechanism, in which individuals are weighing and combining their own and others' positions on an issue in the revision of their own positions. The influence network construct of the theory is the social structure of the endogenous interpersonal influences that are involved in this mechanism. With this theory, the authors seek to lay the foundation for a better formal integration of classical and current lines of work on small groups in psychological and sociological social psychology
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976735
ER  -