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This chapter describes experimental small-group cultures. The argument in support of the relevance of experimental small-group cultures rests with some established principles while dispensing with others. The chapter describes different kinds of small-group cultures including task forces (crews, hunting groups); teams; and experimental task groups. In these group-cultures, persons come together and learn to act together; resulting from this purposive behavior, tasks are specified during the course of which persons learned to act coordinately. Rules, procedures, and ends being agreed upon, a body of information could flow through and sometimes structure small-groups. The chapter describes Lin's group-culture that began with three men and added a girl as a second-generation member. Unlike Buster's group and somewhat like Cranshaw's, Lin's group tended at times to collapse all of its interactions into two-generation directions. |
