Sociometry
The Soziometrie is one of Jacob Levy Moreno in the 1930s and proven method of empirical social research , which serves relationships between members of a group in a so-called sociomatrix to capture a sociogram graphically present and analyze this with respect to different figures.
Procedure
In advance, questions are asked of all members with regard to the criterion of interest regarding their attitudes towards everyone else in the group (e.g. the classic questions: "List which work colleagues you find sympathetic. Who would you like to ... In supervision and organizational development processes, questions are also asked about influence, trust, support or existing conflicts.) In psychodrama , which also goes back to Moreno, sociometric decisions are brought about, for example who in the group is allowed to deal with his case attune their bodies by closeness or touch.
The sociogram finally, the relations of the group members graphically as a network. By means of various formulas can then indicators (status of an individual, social integration degree, etc.) are determined. A distinction is made between “hot sociometry” (methods for the practical implementation of sociometric findings in interaction processes using an action sociogram, spectrogram or sociometric map) and “cold sociometry”, the mere description of relationship structures based on surveys.
The limits of sociometry lie in the size of the analyzable group and in the objective significance of its results. Sociometry can be seen as a forerunner of sociological network analysis.
literature
- Jacob Levy Moreno : The Basics of Sociometry. Ways to reorganize society . 4th edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-663-09721-1 .
- Christian Stadler (Ed.): Sociometry. Measurement, representation, analysis and intervention in social relationships . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18212-4 .