guiding questions 5 through 7

Response:

The rule of 150 explains about the number of people with whom we can maintain the social relationship. Neocortex proportion when identified with the extent of the mind, gives us the most extreme gathering size of the creature. We apply this for the Homo sapiens, the outcome is 147.8. This is the organic hypothesis behind the Rule of 150. The social theory of the Rule 150 begins with anthropological writing, 21 different tribe’s the average number of people in their villages is 148.8 And historic number of people maintained were about 150. Military associations compose their gatherings in the quantities of 150 for fighting as a unit together. It is anything but difficult to accomplish the objectives with the group of individuals under 150. If a group surpasses 150 individuals, orders can't be executed effectively and there are chances for disorder behavior. So, the magic number of group is 150. At the point when group estimate increments than this, individuals in the groups move toward becoming outsiders to other.

2. How is transactive memory used in effective business/industry management? How can we use transactive memory in our TEC 5970 course or even in the balance of your masters program? Ch. 5, 10 points)

Response:

I think, makes it much clearer what he’s speaking about (TP P.187). Transactive memory refers to the knowledge storage we as a human store some memory outside the brain. Wegner has conducted the survey with the people who do not know each other and were paired as a couple and with the people who know each other and paired as a couple. They were asked to remember the 69 statements. After the survey, the people who are known to each other performed well in remembering the statements than the people who are not known couples. In the same way, the employees in the organization will rely on knowledge network. The knowledge and technology transfer should be done in the organizations within the employees all this will help to develop an innovation system in the organization. Interaction form in knowledge network will improve the skills transfer and a new product creation. In the same way students in the class should know each other and should interact with each other. Sharing knowledge will help to know more things on the concepts. In this course, the best part of interactions and sharing knowledge is by posting and discussing student’s ideas in the D2L. With this I have learn so many concepts in the Diffusion of Innovation and Tipping Point.

3. What is meant by “translation”? What are the stages or three directions of distortion necessary for rumor propagation? How does the concept of a “rumor” pay into or against the idea of translation? (Ch. 6, 10 points)

Response:

Social epidemics is rumors. Rumors spread by becoming the sticky. Basically, the rumors contain many pieces of information and its spreads and simplifies. The procedure by which gossip is spread is like the procedure by which Mavens, Salesmen, and Connectors make a thought idea popular, and the procedure by which a thought diffuses from the Early Innovators to the Early Majority. Gladwell called this as a translation. The process of distortion is the nearly same with universal in spread of rumors. There used to be many people who lacked compelling themselves in passing their story attentively as it was told. The process of distortion is that the rumors will be briefer as they spread. And other persons will apt the process and spread it briefer by stamping their own words which includes more interesting and more credible. In this way, the rumor pays against the idea of translation.

4. What is the role of the super-exchangers, serving as connectors, the example of the Baltimore needle exchange program? How were they intended to be used, how do they actually function (role), and what is their potential in the efforts to reduce HIV, drug use, other health problems, and general crime? (Ch. 6, 10 points)

Response:

The example of strategy in action in the Baltimore is the City has faced many problems with the drugs and disasters. And City used to send the drugs to the other corner of the streets in its inner neighborhoods at certain times. Their main concept is for the when they return dirty used needle which addicts handover then they will get the new free needle. The exchange idea of needles helped them in fighting the AIDS. And the reused HIV infected needles are responsible in virus spread. After the program was introduced, authorities understood that a couple of addicts were acquiring several needles, trading them for clean needles, and afterward offering the needles all alone. In the long run, authorities chose this was a greatly improved solution for the issue of dirty needles than the governament itself could give: the addicts who were offering clean needle. The super- exchangers role is to help people at the time when they are doing drugs. They provided 24/7 service the people and they did not cost anything for the service. Super-exchangers used to have the ability to translate the language and sharing the ideas that promote health into form that other addicts could understand.

5. What is the difference between contagiousness and stickiness? Besides smoking, what do you think are other social experiences that might be examined and explained through Gladwell’s contagious and/or sticky model? (Ch. 7, 10 points)

Response:

Gladwell stopped to differentiate the differences between contagiousness and stickiness at the beginning. Contagiousness, he keeps the things and must do work people who is going to convey the idea. The number of different trainings have exposed the kind of stickiness attributed to smoking. Most of the people smoke because when they feel bore or feel stressed. The author Gladwell discussed about the issues for their own interest to determine that how best approach the war smoking. He managed to assume that the contagiousness element of smoking makes them attractive. For some smokers smoking is contagious. The one way to fight the teen smoking epidemic could be the limit salesmen. There would be chancing to reduce the habit of smoking by giving pills to the people who are habituated with the smoking. The problem is about the contagiousness and it is difficult, if not it is difficult to fight. The government should switch its strategy to reduce the stickiness of cigarettes. Government officials have spent huge amount on reducing the contagiousness of cigarettes.