sociometry

[Peter Howie]

Dear Adam,

Yes. And I realize at the same time that it is more complex and  
complicated than that. But I agree that if cna be tightened in it's a  
ti e description. Perhaps sociometry is being used like the word  
psychodrama - having a range of meanings as well as 'technical' ones.

I think that those locograms, spectrograms, what-i-do-and-how-i-live- 
grams deal with elements of social interactionand have many purposes  
which at the moment I will list as: warm people up to action;  
illustrate some factors that are relevant to a group; illustrate  
commonality and sub grouping around common factors; make a perhaps  
undiscussible area instantly discussible; may illustrate some of the  
factors influencing tele.

How's that before breakfast and my morning run?

I am at a meeting of the australian federation of training institutes  
discussing, amongst a zillion other things, a great new curriculum we  
have developed as a possible across the board curriculum for Aust. A  
bold move. Have you been successful with the final journals?

Cheers

Peter

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Peter Howie
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www.morenocollegium.com.au


On 29/07/2009, at 12:20 AM, "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net> wrote:

> I've been thinking about sociometry and it occurs to me that many  
> exercises that are associated with this category involve little in  
> the way of an examination of the tele factor. Rather this part of so- 
> called sociometry really involves just the externalization of mental  
> processes, attitudes, ideas, making them concrete. E.g., who here is  
> from different parts of the country---let's do a local-gram.
>     Or some spectrograms that have to do with low- or no- tele  
> issues: On this side are the people who have the most experience in  
> action methods, on that side, little or no experience.
>       These are good exercises to get people up and involved, to  
> help people warm up, to help the group give feedback to itself. I'm  
> not challenging the value of some of these exercise, applied  
> judiciously. I'm just questioning whether they should be associated  
> with sociometry per se.
>
>     Of course, some of these exercises can shift focus so that  
> matters of tele or attraction-repulsion or rapport become more  
> relevant. Then the exercises become more strongly sociometric.
>        But they can also be used for issues in which the question of  
> more or less, positive, negative, ambivalent, whatever-- tele is  
> slight to irrelevant.
>
>       I felt a need to make this distinction to clarify a sector in  
> which this has in my mind been a little muddy---and I wonder if  
> others have experienced this slight cognitive dissonance---this  
> "hey, is this really sociometry, assessing the tele dynamics?"  
> hidden question in some activities that are on the surface called  
> "sociometric," or even quasi- or near-sociometric.
>
>        I'm open to thoughts about this. Warmly, Adam
> Adam Blatner, M.D.
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