Territoriality: A Neglected Sociological Dimension

Lyman, Stanford M.; Scott, Marvin B.

doi:10.1525/sp.1967.15.2.03a00090

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“…Higher EDAs were recorded in the together condition-but only when it followed the alone condition. It is possible that, when participants did the alone condition first, they may have thought of the space around the table as being 'theirs' (see: Lyman and Scott, 1967). Therefore, when the together condition followed the alone condition the presence of another person invading 'their' space may have been especially confronting-causing an increase in arousal and EDA.…”

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Keeping your distance: attentional withdrawal in individuals who show physiological signs of social discomfort

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“…Territorial behaviors can be beneficial: they can reduce ambiguity about a group's structure in terms of status and position and help define the boundaries of a social space, communicating who belongs through the use of insider signals such as jargon that only an expert would understand [24]. They can also help to effectively structure coordinated activity [21] so that experts can carve out a consistent role, suited to their expertise, and so that other collaborators can make use of this expertise.…”

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“…Do experts use jargon to describe the objects? [24] and [35] propose that insider terminology can be employed as a defensive territorial strategy to keep unwanted parties from contributing. We hypothesize experts may be more likely to prefer jargon to keep novice-generated terms from becoming prevalent in the collaborative system.…”

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Thom-Santelli

Cosley

2010

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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When experts participate in collaborative systems, tension may arise between them and novice contributors. In particular, when experts perceive novices as a bother or a threat, the experts may express territoriality: behaviors communicating ownership of a target of interest. In this paper, we describe the results of a user study of a mobile social tagging system deployed within a museum gallery to a group of novices and experts collaboratively tagging part of the collection. We observed that experts express greater feelings of ownership towards their contributions to the system and the museum in general. Experts were more likely than novices to participate at higher rates and to negatively evaluate contributions made by others. We suggest a number of design strategies to balance experts' expressions of territoriality so as to motivate their participation while discouraging exclusionary behaviors.

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“…(Barch et al, 1957) Measures degree of integration of supervisor into the organization (Schwartzbaum and Gruenfeld, 1969) Classifies individuals into nonjob competitive individuals; Gross (1961) and Blau (1963: 151) found large discrepancies between reported and actual lunch contacts (see Dean, 1958) (Melbin, 1954; see also Attestande, 1954) Spatial and Territorial Behavior There has been very little use of measures of spatial and territorial behavior to index psychological or social variables. The interested reader should consult Altman (1970), Cook (1970), Esser (1971), Hall (1959Hall ( , 1966, Lyman andScott, (1967), Sommer ( 1969).…”

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Unobtrusive Measures

Bouchard

1976

Sociological Methods & Research

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The logic and advantages of unobtrusive measures are briefly reviewed. The literature on unobtrusive measures is then summarized under four large classes-physical traces, archives, simple observations, and measures gathered with hardware. A small number of methods also fall into a residual category.Each class of methods is discussed briefly and recommendations and/or problems with its use are discussed. This is followed by a listing of the measures in that category, an indication of what variable is being indexed and applicable references. he purpose of this paper is not to tout the merits of unobtrusive measures; they are as a rule inferentially weak. The intent is to illustrate a wide variety of them and, by example, to persuade the reader to consider seriously supplementing more traditional procedures with them. Neither will we discuss in any detail the problems entailed by their use. Every user should read the superb methodological discussion in Webb et al. (1966). Other excellent methodological discussions can be found in Brandt (1972, ch. 5) and Denzin (1970, chs. 1 1 and 12).

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Territoriality: A Neglected Sociological Dimension

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