Part 1:
What social and emotional needs can be met by people we see daily?
Jia Min: It seems like you have more questions for your second topic so you would have more to write about and research on. I would go with that one and it sounds pretty interesting. Maybe your EQ can be "What more does a closer friend have to do than just a friend?"
Amber: Interesting question. Are you focusing on family or other people? I think attention is the word; why do people tend to seek attention outside the family. Just a suggestion.
Part 3:
What emotional needs can be met by our acquaintances?
Lewin, Tamar. "Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/us/06formspring.html. New York Times. Web. 12 May 2010.
Formspring.me is a website that allows teenagers to write anonymous comments instead of writing on bathroom walls. Since the comments are anonymous, teenagers often insult the user. The user can select comments s/he chooses to post and answer to but most do not filter the nasty ones; they are more tempted to post them. One teenager had stopped wearing a particular clothing because someone had made a comment on it. The website has even caused a suicide of a teenager because of the nasty comments posted about him.
Teenagers take advantage of the nasty and inappropriate comments from other people to attract attention to themselves. Other teenagers that we see daily, but do not consider as friends, serve as a game piece to draw attention. It is the same thing as going to a party and making out with someone so that you have something to tell your friends about, thus drawing attention to yourself. Users are crushed by the critical comments on the website but they still read them. It seems that people who are not that close to you would be the ones telling you the truth and it is the only way you can figure out how to "fix" yourself. People you see daily are there to give you feedback on how you should act or how you should look.
Lloyd, Tracey. "The Process Of Deindividuation." http://social-therapy.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_process_of_deindividuation. Suite101.com. Web. 13 May 2010.
Deindividuation "suggests that strong identification with a group culture may lead to decreased personal responsibility." This terminology was created in the 1950s by Festinger. Psychologists believe that individuals behave more aggressively than those who are deindividualized. Deindividualizing one allows the responsibility to be shared among the group so that one does not need to carry all the burden. The article goes on, giving examples of evidence proving the success of deindividuation.
This is not the best article but I think the concept of deindividuation partly answers the question why teachers like to put us in groups and why we are in classrooms as opposed to homeschooling. When we work on projects with a group, we do not have to be responsible for all the requirements because we have others to share the responsibility. As a whole class, we do not have to feel like we need to have all the answers because we have others in class to build ideas off of. Our classmates are there to carry some of the responsibility so that we do not have to take it on by ourselves.
Cherry, Kendra. "Effects of Group Size on Problem Solving." http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologynews/qt/groupsize.htm. About.com. Web. 13 May 2010.
Working in groups of three to five people do better at tasks than just one person alone. A study done with groups of three provided results showing that the group was able to solve more difficult problems. The study also show that just two people is not enough, the group must consist of three to five people; working with just two people is just as bad as one person working alone.
Again, this connects to my students in the classroom; we often work in groups because more heads are better than one. Maybe teachers should consider this study and allow students to work in groups of three to five people to see if any significant changes occur. As students, other students serve as other brains that we can work off of, or better phrase, work together with.
I think your question is good... I think you can choose either social or emotional need to focus on because once you start talking about them, I think they are both the same and connect to each other. I think you can also narrow the emotional category down too, like attention needs, talking needs so we won't become too introverted or so, and connection needs and etc... Nicely chosen mAggIE!~ and thank you for your comment =D
ReplyDeleteI think that while your question is good, you should make it slightly more narrow, possibly by focusing on either social or emotional instead of both. This would cut your work down in half. In addition, you can make the target range smaller, focusing on particular groups of people we see every day like co-workers, fellow students, etc.
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