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An experimental approach to group growth van Mourik Broekman, Aafke
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van Mourik Broekman, A. (2018). An experimental approach to group growth: When boundaries between performers and observers are breached. University of Groningen.
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Propositions
Aafke van Mourik Broekman
1. Performing arts can reshape social structures among target group and observers (this thesis).
2. Displays of solidarity foster feelings of solidarity among target group and observers (this thesis).
3. Mechanical and organic solidarity foster solidarity through different pathways (this thesis).
4. The sense of personal value among actors in a target group is central to emergent organic solidarity (this thesis).
5. Observing a performance of solidarity does not only affect feelings, but also
post-performance behaviour (this thesis).
6. Synchrony influences social perceptions of a target group, irrespective of the observers’ social identity (this thesis).
7. When an intergroup context is salient, affiliation with the target group is mainly dependent on group membership and not on synchrony (this thesis).
8. “… alone together in the back of a library we studied each animals’ secret society and learned the use of the collective noun.
Example: A murder of crows.
God knows it sounds ominous but this is how I learned about community. We have names for the groupings that occur even in the open ocean; a battery of barracuda, a shiver of sharks, a school of fish, and I pondered the philosophy since barracudas and sharks are technically fish, wouldn’t the term school of fish
encapsulate them as well? …” (stanza from Crush by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long)
