{"id":9114,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/sociometry\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:04","slug":"sociometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/sociometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Procedures in which children individually nominate the peers whom they like (attraction) and dislike (repulsion) the most. &nbsp;In other words, they establish a child&#8217;s status in his or her peer group in terms of popularity or rejection. &nbsp;The most widely used sociometric procedure is that to found in Coie, J.D., &amp; Dodge, K.A. (1983). Continuities and change in children&#8217;s social status: a five year longitudinal study. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Merrill-Palmer Quarterly<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">29<\/span>, 261-282. &nbsp;It involves asking children to rate how much they like or dislike each of their classmates, ratings that are then used to assign them to one of five groups: Popular, Rejected, Neglected (not particularly liked or disliked, but tend to go unnoticed), Average (average number of both positive and negative nominations), and Controversial (liked by a few children, but disliked by a few). &nbsp;Another procedure is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classroomsociometrics.com\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.classroomsociometrics.com\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walsh&#8217;s Classroom Sociometrics<\/a>, which is computer program that analyses nominations so that children are automatically classified into one of the five Coie and Dodge groups. &nbsp;Much sociometric research with children is longitudinal in design so that the long-term consequences of popularity or rejection by peers can be determined, as well as means of monitoring the effects of interventions. &nbsp;Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2812902\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2812902\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">methodological problems <\/a>have been identified with sociometric procedures such as the potential for a response bias if names are presented for rating in alphabetical order. &nbsp;Sociometry was the brain child of the psychotherapist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morenoinstituteeast.org\/bios.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.morenoinstituteeast.org\/bios.htm&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Levy Moreno<\/a> (1889-1974) who was interested how social structures impinged on feelings of psychological well-being. &nbsp;His main methodological innovation was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/Users\/robinb\/socio.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/Users\/robinb\/socio.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sociogram<\/a>&nbsp;(a way of graphically displaying social links that a person has in a group). &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;See <a href=\"attractions\">Attractions<\/a>, <a href=\"friendship\">Friendship<\/a>, <a href=\"indifference\">Indifference<\/a>, <a href=\"peer_group\">Peer group<\/a>, <a href=\"peers\">Peers<\/a>, <a href=\"pupil_evaluation_inventory\">Pupil Evaluation Inventory<\/a>, <a href=\"revised_class_play\">Revised Class Play<\/a>, <a href=\"socialization\">Socialization<\/a>, Social network <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procedures in which children individually nominate the peers whom they like (attraction) and dislike (repulsion) the most. &nbsp;In other words, they establish a child&#8217;s status in his or her peer group in terms of popularity or rejection. &nbsp;The most widely used sociometric procedure is that to found in Coie, J.D., &amp; Dodge, K.A. (1983). Continuities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/sociometry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sociometry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}