Week#6, post#3

Chapter 18: Production of change, reproduction or stability

The group dynamic is ever present when interested in the group dynamic. This would include crafting the decision, duality of structure, stability, and change. Production is the use of rules and resources to create a new structure. Reproduction is the use of rules and resources to reinforce structures already in place. The duality of structure is the idea that rules and resources are both the means and the ends of group interaction. Lastly, the interpenetration of structures are unnoticed change over time as reproduced structures affect each other. All of these concepts combine to describe the group product.