{"id":383,"date":"2011-02-07T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2011-03-10T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:28:08","slug":"group-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"GROUP BEHAVIOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Group-behaviour.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-326\" title=\"Group behaviour\" src=\"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Group-behaviour.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Group behaviour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group behaviour in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sociology <\/span>refers to the situations where<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people interact inside <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">small groups <\/span>, for example to reach or not a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">consensus <\/span>and act in a coordinated way. This is the field of group dynamics.<\/li>\n<li>large number of people in a given area behave simultaneously in similar way and have a similar goal, that might be different from what they would do individually (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">herd behaviour <\/span>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example, a large group of people (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">crowd <\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mob<\/span>) is likely to show examples of group behaviour when a group of people, gathered in a given place and time will act in a similar way &#8211; for example, they will join a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">protest <\/span>\u00a0or a March, take place in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fight <\/span>\u00a0or welcome an idol.<\/p>\n<p>Special forms of large group behaviour are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">crowd <\/span>\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hysteria <\/span>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">spectators <\/span>\u00a0&#8211; when a group of people gathered together on purpose to participate in an event like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">theatre <\/span>\u00a0play, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cinema <\/span>movie,\u00a0 match, a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">concert <\/span>, etc.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">public <\/span>\u00a0&#8211; exception to the rule that the group must occupy the same physical place. People watching same channel on television may react in the same way, as they are occupying the same type of place &#8211; in front of TV &#8211; although they may physically be doing this all over the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Group behaviour differs from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mass actions <\/span>\u00a0which refers to people behaving similary on a more global scale (for example, shoppers in different shops), while group behaviour refers usually to people in one place. If the group behaviour is coordinated, then it is called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">group action <\/span>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Swarm intelligence <\/span>\u00a0is a special case of group behaviour, referring to the interaction between a group of agents in order to fulfil a given task. This type of group dynamics has received much attention by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">soft computing <\/span>\u00a0community in the form of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">particle swarm optimization <\/span>\u00a0family of algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Group behaviour Group behaviour in sociology refers to the situations where people interact inside small groups , for example to reach or not a consensus and act in a coordinated way. This is the field of group dynamics. large number of people in a given area behave simultaneously in similar way and have a similar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-71"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}