Week 4 #3 Pressures for conformity

We see that in small groups that when a group has some type of knowledge in the subject, the ideas tend to get miss communicated or not taking in considerations. The pressure of conformity has small groups tied up in conflict that sends hostility towards other group members. For example, if a group were all knowledgeable of making a volcano, ones idea may be different from others on how they want to construct the volcano. In doing this group members tend to put assumptions on ideas saying their ideas are not good enough or their irrelevant to the project at hand. Nevertheless, making it harder to contribute and put forth effort because the ideas that is on the table the group is unfamiliar with. Additionally “individuals who share the same cultural norms and expectations, different experiences may cause one or another to approach a given take from a different perspective than that of the apparent majority of group members”. (Chpt. 5 pg97) By saying this group members who have encounter the same problem have all solved it differently, thus making it hard to contribute opinions with groups. We need to set guidelines in between groups that can give us the best result on overcoming obstacles, one such can be finding which person ideas gives us the best possible results, with the easiest steps for group members. Nevertheless, groups that have such high conformity levels should find ways to come up with alternative routes to where everybody ideas can be express and talked about before cutting out possible ideas that can help the project excel.