Measuring the Structure and Boundary Properties of Groups
Some Uses of Information Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10758490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David R Phillips (0000-0002-0998-5403), David P Phillips (corresponding author), Richard H Conviser |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235 |
| Publication date | 1972-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociometry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0431 • E-ISSN: 2325-7938 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2786620 |
| OpenAlex | W2516838182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
While sociologists have long been concerned with problems of social structure, they have not developed standardized techniques for determining the structuredness of situations. This paper presents a measure of structure drawn from information theory and demonstrates its application to a small group situation discussed in Homans' The Human Group. The measure is used to determine the number of groups in the situation, to locate group boundaries, to determine the sharpness of those boundaries, and to measure the loss of descriptive accuracy in mislocating group boundaries. Several advantages of the information theory measure relative to other sociometric and non-sociometric techniques are discussed. Also, ways in which the measure can be applied to other small-group problems and to macro-sociological
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2015 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |