There are three main types of sociometry: 1) Line-up, also known as a continuum \u2028<\/p>
2) Groups, also known as category \u2028 3) Maps<\/p>
You will need to decide in advance what questions are appropriate for the group. Start with something simple, like forming groups according to your birthday month (category) or line up from January 1 to December 31 (continuum).<\/p>
Have the participants stand up. Describe the line, explaining the two extremes at each end, and then invite people to stand on the line according to their own assessment. When using categories or a map, clearly identify which parts of the room relate to each category, or how the \u2018map\u2019 can be visualised on the floor.<\/p>
Examples of line-up questions:
Length of time working with \u2018x\u2019
How long it took you to travel to this meeting \u2028
Amount of experience or understanding you have of \u2028 the topic (can ask people to take one step towards more understanding\/experience and describe what they need from the meeting) \u2028<\/p>
Can ask one end of the line to double-back creating pairs<\/p>
A build on this is to create two \u201caxes\u201d in the room to make a grid so people choose a spot that answers on two scales at the same time.\u2028<\/p>
How to use category questions: \u2028<\/p>
Invite people to stand at one of the categories, eg \u2028
o Select the one that best describes you oSelect the one that is most challenging\/easiest\/hardest for you to understand\/ You would like to work on \u2028<\/p>
Invite participants to talk with each other about why they chose to stand where they did \u2028<\/p>
Hear some responses from each group \u2028
How to use map questions:\u2028
Create an imaginary map of the world, country or territory on the floor and invite people to stand on the map according to certain criteria eg where they were born, where they are now working, where they would most like to holiday etc. \u2028<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sociometry Download as PDF What is it for? An active way of measuring individual relationships in a group, and for connecting people to each other and to the topic. Time & People 10-30 mins Numbers limited mostly by space available. We\u2019ve run this with groups from 8 to 200 Materials Bell\/chime to call attention Source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2624","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}