Understanding of family as small group is very widespread in social psychology. In general understand small group of people with the general social activity as small group.
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1. The soprisutstviye of people in time and space is characteristic of family as small group that does possible personal contacts between them.
2. The reference character is characteristic of family – it means that all family members accept and divide certain general patterns of behavior. They also have general moral values.
3. In family as any small group there is a leader and subordinated. Any of her adult members because they play the leading role in ensuring activity of all group can be the leader in family.
4. The family differs in integration. This concept means high degree of unity and community of all her members.
5. For family as small group the intra group activity is peculiar. All her members interact with different intensity with each other.
6. Also the intergroup activity because all family members join in various abstract external groups is characteristic. Any person cannot be only a family member as social group.
7. In family there is the microclimate which is created by specifics of relationship between her members. Their psychological state, satisfaction level, comfort level at stay in family group plays a role.
8. Availability of intellectual communicativeness is characteristic of family as small group, this sign reflects the nature of interpersonal perception and finding of common language.
9. The family has the focus which is understood as a certain common goal. For achievement of this purpose all family members make the contribution. It can be near or distant prospects.
10. The purposes in family can be intellectual or emotional, happen also physical.
11. In family as any small group there is a prevailing emotional background. It is created by emotions of all family members.
12. The family is characterized by sign of strong-willed communicativeness – ability to resist to difficulties.
13. The family has the role structure, and roles in family can be the most various. The role is a social function of the personality to which any given stereotypes of behavior are ordered. Except obvious, roles in family can be such: owner, tutor, psychotherapist, organizer of leisure responsible for maintenance of family traditions.
14. The last sign – presence at family of the specific culture. These are the certain developed norms and rules, leaning on which family members expect from each other any given behavior.