Saturday, October 4, 2008

Blog #2 10.4.08

Chapter 18: Adaptive Structuation Theory

I really appreciated the interview with Scott Poole. I felt out of all of the interviews thus far, he did the best job of explaining his theory. After reading and watching the interview, the theory makes a lot of sense. At first, it was challenging to grasp, as Scott Poole explained in his interview, but after thinking about his examples, it clicked. I think back to high school initially regarding his examples of pecking orders… but that can apply to work, or church, or college also. I especially appreciated Scott Poole’s examples at how to approach situations in groups at the end of the interview. 1st he said to make small changes in your behavior in order to amend the situation with the group. 2nd he gave an example of undertaking a major intervention. He also made sure to not that we will never know the true outcome, but sometimes it is worth it to call someone out.

1 comment:

COMM Aficionado said...

I definitely agree with you that watching the interview helped understand the theory a bit more. And I do think that the idea of making "small changes in your behavior" works to make amends with everything, not just a group :) It's one of those things applicable to many life situations. And although we will never predict right 100% of the time, it is worth is to call out those people once in a while,sometimes it makes all the difference.