deal which allows the minority to be the majority. There is no right or wrong in the group, unlike a jury where there is a correct answer. The group influences each other to be unique and then blend all the personalities into one. The Wu Tang Clan as a whole demonstrates normative influence. Normative influence is social influence that results from personal and interpersonal pressures to conform to group norms. The group does not pressure members to conform instead the norm allow members to conform. The fact that the norm of the group is to allow members to act as individuals makes it easy for individuals to conform. The reason that it is normative is because the social influence creates pressures to act as an individual, which in turn result in personal and interpersonal conformation to group norms.PerformanceWhen looking at performance I have decided to look at performance within the group. With music group performances such as a CD or a concert could also be looked at. I feel that social facilitation occurred with the group. Social facilitation is the enhancement of performance when another person is present. I say social facilitation occurred based on the fact that I feel members perform better on a group Wu Tang Clan album than on an individual solo album. I feel that social facilitation would be an expected given the complexity of the task. What allows social facilitation to be a given is that the Wu Tang Clan is a complex group itself. The member’s balance out each other, in other words each member’s strengths cover each other’s weakness. So when members are together it as if its one person, so social facilitation occurs because when together the group makes individual stronger.First it has to be understood that the task that the group performs are dominant tasks , or well learned or instinctive behaviors that a person has practiced and is primed to perform. Since the task is dominant it lead to one factor th...
