Dynamics of Small Group: Microgroup Theory Approach

The concept of ‘group dynamics’ should be concretized by means of certain processes and phenomena. This concretization depends on the framework employed by a researcher. In the context of a microgroup theory group dynamics is conceived as transformation of socio-psychological group structure, i.e., of informal subgroups and non-involved-in-them members, their relations with each other and with a group as a whole. The basis of the group dynamics is composed of contradictions (self- transformation source) and the related processes of integration and disintegration (self-transformation mechanism) in structure and external activity of a group.