Comments on: Not Your Average Summer Camp

By: Dr. Psycho

Dr. Psycho — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:37:00 +0000

“When individuals having no established relationships are brought together to interact in group activities with common goals, they produce a group structure with hierarchical statuses and roles within it. ”
So hard to describe a few words like co-operating with strangers.

Daniel
http://psychodisorders.com/

By: summer programs

summer programs — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:11:52 +0000

There are lots of girls summer camps located in country that provides special facilities and activities for teenage girls to remove all of their behavioral problems. The staff members provide personal attention on each girl to address their needs.
http://www.restoreteens.com/Search/0/Summer-Programs/index.html

By: actionplant

actionplant — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:21:14 +0000

The snake in your picture is of a Burmese python, which is not any kind of “rattler” whatsoever. Some may see this as a nit-pick, but if it’s not that important why not use a picture of a cockatoo instead of an actual eagle?

By: Jeffrey93

Jeffrey93 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:18:40 +0000

I think if the boys were from different backgrounds, races, religions, etc. It would have led to more initial conflict within the group, but eventually the group would gel in an attempt to be better than the other group. Differences would be set aside to dominate over the other group. At which point, the differences might again raise conflict, especially if the group failed to best the other group.

The article is bang on about failure of the group activities. If they had failed blame would have been laid making the groups less likely to participate in a co-op nature in the future.

A co-op activity could bring the world together, as long as it was important to everyone and failure was impossible. Because, if we failed....you could expect a war. At the very least, a very stand-offish attitude would settle over the globe for quite some time.

By: mwace

mwace — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:17:05 +0000

Why hasn’t it occoured to anybody that there might be a rather significent sociological difference between ten year old middle class white christian boys and the variety of groups that people are trying to apply these sociological tendancies towards? Considering the level of detail that whent into the study, this is a rather significent assumption thats been left unaddressed.

By: Stead311

Stead311 — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:47:39 +0000

I heard about this from my psych class and my philosophy class. It is very interesting to see what a common goal can do to a group of people. It isn't that hard to believe that if we have different interests there would be fighting among us.

So... a thought to ponder.. wouldn't it be nice if the world had a common goal?

By: manni

manni — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:03:49 +0000

lol a balloon fight ahh i remember those hehe the only problem is when your balloon explodes from too much pressure when your about to throw it

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:23:50 +0000

“Survivor: Robber’s Cave”

By: noway

noway — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:50:42 +0000

o, btw, I agree with the above...you guys (Damn Interesting) need an edit function for these posts...

good piece Marisa

By: noway

noway — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:46:30 +0000

Vanya said: "When I was in the sixth grade, something similar happened naturally. We were all white, middle class. Two groups (we thought of them as gangs) formed, the Jets and the Sharks (yeah, it was the 60s). We had about a dozen members each. We called each other names, leaders emerged, etc. We even had one of our group join the other to act as a spy. The whole thing culminated in a waterballoon fight (sounds really lame, I know, but we were pretty sheltered and naive). After that the whole thing kind of fizzled out and we went back to having small cliques. Little did we know we were on the cutting edge of sociology!"

LOL...awesome...PS boys are better than gurls!