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the beginning of each focus group, I introduced myself; provided name badges for the group members; and explained the study’s purpose. After, I described my role as the moderator and how the session would progress. I reminded the participants about the digital audio recorders and that their responses would be assigned pseudonyms to ensure confidentiality. Then, I distributed consent forms and participant questionnaires (see Appendix A) along with pencils to the group. After collecting the…

Introduction The LEGO Group, a popular company based in Billund, Denmark, has been in the toy industry for over 80 years. The company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen and was passed down for generations to its recent owner, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. The word 'lego' is originated from a Danish word 'Leg Godt', which in other words also means 'play well'. Lego toys are popular among kids, teenagers and even adults. Their products are sold all around the world such as Australia, Singapore…

Our Primary Group: What we remember and don’t want to remember In this chapter, Charles H. Cooley points out that “the central role of primary group development of one 's sense of self.” Primary group includes family, childhood friends, and our love relationship. I recall on our second discussion most of us agreed on how the family effect on individuals socialize in this society. Reflecting back on my life, it is true that a family has an enormous effect on us. I knew that for the first 5 years…

A Minority is a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their lives than members of a dominant or majority group Not limited to mathematical minority for an example women, Blacks in South Africa, Blacks in Mississippi and South Carolina in the 1920's. Minorities must always be understood in relation to others in the social structure. A minority groups lacks power, prestige, and privilege in relation to others. They are unable to achieve their will. They lack…

Economic interest groups are ubiquitous and the most prominent in all countries. There are literally thousands of them with offices in national capitals from London to Ottawa to New Delhi to Canberra. There are several different kinds of economic interests: business groups (e.g., the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Confederation of British Industry, and the Nestlé Corporation, headquartered in Switzerland and with operations throughout the world), labour groups (e.g., IG Metall…

The Bilderberg Group Do you ever wonder about the government? How does it work? What plans are they conspiring that we don’t know about? What if I told you we have a second government. The Bilderberg, also known as our second government, is powerful yet secretive group that makes some of the biggest decisions in american history. Though the group does not seem so bad from the outside, their enigmatic actions regarding anything about the group is suspicious. Because of thI think everyone should…

Focus groups interviewing refers to a method in which a number of people are brought together in a control setting, to be interviewed together as a group. For this method to become a successful study, one needs to be able to listen, think, and talk almost at the same time. Focus groups are a good tool for exploratory research, however, as is the case in most studies, these qualitative interviews may later be combined with quantitative techniques in order to gain a deeper understanding of the…

the formation of ester groups through the reaction between carboxylic acid groups of PAA oligomers and silanol groups of silica moieties 12. Besides, in SiO2/PAA hybrids, the O-H bands were broadened with the increase of silica content from 30 to 40 and 40 wt % and gradually shifted from 3100 cm-1 to 3150 cm-1, respectively (Figure 2). These observations may be the consequence of the strong hetero-associated hydrogen bonds…

Tuckman’s theory describes the fifth stage of a group development. In 1977 Dr Tuckman study the behaviour of small groups in different environments and he notes that groups go through five different stages in order to achieve the highest effectiveness. (Martin et al., 2006) Forming This is the first stage when group member has their first contact as group is an introductory stage, where people want to be accepted by the other member of the group and they try to keep away from any conflict by…

In moments fitting in the group is really affective in situations. Also it is easy to understand each member in the group. But question is should the person to fit in in the group? Many societies claim that the person should be unique, so he will not be another copy of someone else. Nevertheless, if the person can fit in the group, they will understand each other, they will do a lot of thing that all of them enjoy doing, and they have a common interest. Therefore, it is argued that it is…