Finally, students are asked to make their own applications to their worlds of work and school. Students are assigned the article to read before the next class. The class begins with a discussion of the distinctiveness and social identity findings and their relationship to the students ' experience in or out of class. The class then constructs in own sociogram. Ask people how many and start using the person with the highest number as the center of the network.
People join the network by joining hands with a friend until all friends are connected.
Any one who is unconnected at this point, is asked to join where ever they would feel most comfortable. While the network is captured in notes, people are asked to look at the network form their perspective. As they discuss their experience, the findings regarding minority networks are introduced. It is important to talk about the experience of those who joined the network last as these folks have the best picture of the sociogram as a whole and can point out features others did not see. Despite the complexity of this article for undergraduates, the phenomena it describes in only too familiar to them.