Which of the following can be used for obtaining an idea of a student’s social interaction?

Which of the following can be used for obtaining an idea of a student’s social interaction? Correct Answer Sociometry

Sociometry is a qualitative method for measuring social relationships. It was developed by psychotherapists Jacob L. Moreno and Helen Hall Jennings in their studies of the relationship between social structures and psychological well-being and used during Remedial Teaching.

Key Points

  • Sociometry is the study of interpersonal relationships between people in a group.
  • The word Sociometry comes from the Latin word “Socius,” which means Partner/Friend/Companion and“Metrum,” which means Measure.
  • Sociometry is a way of measuring the degree of relatedness among people.
  • It is a methodology for tracking the energy vectors of interpersonal relationships in a group.
  • The purpose of sociometry is to facilitate group task effectiveness and satisfaction of participants by bringing about greater degrees of mutuality amongst people and greater authenticity in relationships.
  • It can also be used to measure individual characteristics such as leadership, aggressiveness, liberalism and conservatism.

Additional Information 

  • The Children's Apperception Test (CAT) is a projective personality test used to assess individual variations in children's responses to standardized stimuli presented in the form of pictures of animals or humans in common social situations.
  • The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is an IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents.
  • Mosaic test is a projective technique in which the participant, usually a child, is asked to “make anything you like” out of about 400 pieces of different colours and shapes

Related Questions

Labour welfare, though, is not exactly social work but any welfare is the result of social work. Social work lead to states of welfare both of individuals and groups. And, therefore, it can be derived that labour welfare is an area of social work. There exists four methods of undertaking social work.
Match the subject matter given in List-I with the method of social work given in List-II.