Children's Understanding of Deviance and Group Dynamics: The Development of Subjective Group Dynamics

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 135-157

  Abrams, Dominic ^a,b   Rutland, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Center for the Study of Group Processes   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's understanding of deviance and group dynamics and subjective group dynamics; Cognitive developmental and age based inputs perspective taking and classification skills; Developmental subjective group dynamics (DSGD) model; Deviant ingroup member threatening, undermining ingroup consensus; Rebellion, intrinsic to processes of social change relationships within groups, forged and altered; Social developmental processes; Social psychology, 'deviants' as people deviating from group norms; Subjective group dynamics group consensus in intergroup situations; Theories of small group behaviour and subjective group dynamics model, for adults; Value of group nous pronounced 'nowss'

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886458468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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