MOVIE SUMMARY :
A young Puerto Rican boy is framed for the murder of his father. A guilty verdict by the jury would result in a death sentence for the accused. The jurors decided to take a vote; all but the protagonist voted that the boy was guilty. The protagonist felt that a death sentence should not be awarded to a person unless proper evidence is sought against him. He feels that the boy may be guilty but wants the case for defense to be presented clearly which may indeed give the boy the benefit of doubt.
Since the verdict was not unanimous, they went on to deliberate the various facts of the case.They discussed all the evidences against the boy and the court room has a general atmosphere of guilt. Initially, the others jurors went about …show more content…
The various aspects of group decision making such as group forming, storming, norming, performing, group shift, group dynamics and social influence is used here.
The four phases of group development - forming, storming, norming and performing take place almost simultaneously one after the other. The forming stage happens relatively quickly. The jurors contemplate on where to sit following which the foreman asks them to sit in a particular order. The storming stage takes place through the entirety of the movie as the jurors are from differing backgrounds and clash in personalities is bound to take place. Thus a lot of time was taken to come to a single conclusion. Norming phase takes place once the differing personalities of the jurors are understood and people start mentioning their opinions. The performing stage is when the decision making is actually in progress. Thus, all the four stages take place almost …show more content…
This was clearly evident in the first scene where all the jurors had to vote guilty or not guilty. Most of the jurors went with “not guilty” because that was the group norm. They did not even consider their own personal opinions. This behaviour was also depicted by juror #12 who initially went with not guilty but afterwards changed to guilty during the second vote out because of what juror #4 had mentioned. Conformity inbides in it two more concepts : Majority Influence and Minority Influence.
Majority Influence –This is basically using the strength of the majority to convince the minority to change their stand. In this case, juror #8 was the minority. Initially, the majority took on all possible measures to convince the protagonist to change his opinion. Social influence was used where they used the majority as an aid to change the decision. Another example of majority influence is juror #7 who blindly follows what the other jurors have to say and does not take into account his personal opinion at all. He does not state any reason for his change from guilty to not guilty later on which gives us a clear indication of majority
A young Puerto Rican boy is framed for the murder of his father. A guilty verdict by the jury would result in a death sentence for the accused. The jurors decided to take a vote; all but the protagonist voted that the boy was guilty. The protagonist felt that a death sentence should not be awarded to a person unless proper evidence is sought against him. He feels that the boy may be guilty but wants the case for defense to be presented clearly which may indeed give the boy the benefit of doubt.
Since the verdict was not unanimous, they went on to deliberate the various facts of the case.They discussed all the evidences against the boy and the court room has a general atmosphere of guilt. Initially, the others jurors went about …show more content…
The various aspects of group decision making such as group forming, storming, norming, performing, group shift, group dynamics and social influence is used here.
The four phases of group development - forming, storming, norming and performing take place almost simultaneously one after the other. The forming stage happens relatively quickly. The jurors contemplate on where to sit following which the foreman asks them to sit in a particular order. The storming stage takes place through the entirety of the movie as the jurors are from differing backgrounds and clash in personalities is bound to take place. Thus a lot of time was taken to come to a single conclusion. Norming phase takes place once the differing personalities of the jurors are understood and people start mentioning their opinions. The performing stage is when the decision making is actually in progress. Thus, all the four stages take place almost …show more content…
This was clearly evident in the first scene where all the jurors had to vote guilty or not guilty. Most of the jurors went with “not guilty” because that was the group norm. They did not even consider their own personal opinions. This behaviour was also depicted by juror #12 who initially went with not guilty but afterwards changed to guilty during the second vote out because of what juror #4 had mentioned. Conformity inbides in it two more concepts : Majority Influence and Minority Influence.
Majority Influence –This is basically using the strength of the majority to convince the minority to change their stand. In this case, juror #8 was the minority. Initially, the majority took on all possible measures to convince the protagonist to change his opinion. Social influence was used where they used the majority as an aid to change the decision. Another example of majority influence is juror #7 who blindly follows what the other jurors have to say and does not take into account his personal opinion at all. He does not state any reason for his change from guilty to not guilty later on which gives us a clear indication of majority