出版社：Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences, Ko拧ice
摘要：Sociometry is a popular assessment method which helps to uncover relationships and social status in different groups (in school environment,organizations etc.).“Sociometry is a method for discovering,describing,and evaluating social status,structure,and development through measuring the extent of acceptance or rejection in social groups"(Bronfenbrenner,1943,p.364).Sociometry measures interpersonal and intergroup relationships (Loomis,Pepinsky,1948).It studies positive and negative affective relations,such as liking/disliking (Wasserman,Faust,1994).There are various sociometric techniques.One group of them are sociometric tests,which measure phenomena like informal friendship constellations,social participation,social distance and group cohesiveness (Miller,Salkind,1991).In a test like that each individual has to select one or more individuals from the group on the basis of a chosen criterion.Outcome of sociometric tests allows us to identify the social status of each member of the group.Those who receive the largest number of choices are called leaders,stars,accepted.Those who receive few or no choices are called neglected/isolated (Byrd,1951).Rejected are those who receive a lot of negative choices.Average individuals have positive as well as negative choices and controversial are those who have high rate of positive and also negative choices.
