DETERMINANTS OF THE SOCIOMETRIC-PATTERN IN AN EDUCATIONAL GROUP

Abstract

In the previous paper (I) we saw the relationship between the roles that students play in facilitating the process of education and their Sociometric- ranks, in an educational group, from the Department of Psychology, Government College, Lahore. We discovered that the most-liked person was not always the one who made a relatively greater contribution in the facilitation and advancement of the educational process of the whole group. In other

words he was chosen primarily because of some others traits and functions, rather than his educational ability and thus had become a powerful factor in taking the group away from its goal (attainment of education). The group as a whole, therefore, was primarily moving away from its goal rather than towards it. Since the individual satisfactions in a group are closely connected with the achievement of the goal (2), we therefore concluded that any member of this group was a dissatified and confused person. He was confused because he had become a victim of the group-phenomena and did not know the reason of his dissatisfaction.