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Social relations and power in a context of group: reflections through a specific activity

This work analyses the social relations of the participants who took part in a program of manager formation at work. They had realized a task which consisted of describing the institution where they work. Firstly, one of the participants assumed the co-ordination of the process in a democratic way by common consent. Secondly, she shared those social place with other colleague, which had disputed with her foregoing the co-ordination. Such activity permitted to visualize the form as they assumed different social places and the complicated web of power relations, and it also permitted to verify that when the place of maximum power was assumed clearly, the work of the group was developed with the involvement of all.

Groups; Social relations; Social psychology


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