Adaptive Structuration Theory

In chapter 18 Adaptive Structuration Theory of Marshall Scott Poole there is a part in the chapter that explains the use and abuse of rules and resources. The term appropriation which means the rules and resources used in a group setting have a history, they are used from another group. I just experienced this in a class where we had to form in groups. We don’t exactly know why we have formed in groups, obviously for a project but we don’t know what the project is. We had to write five norms for the group to follow. We have one member who is similar to the character of Josh in the text. From his guidance and experience with the professor we were able to agree on the five norms with a consensus. The irony of that one of our norms was that majority rules. Our group did this just like the example in the text. We will use the majority rules norm only if necessary. The one thing that Griffin writes that I did not consider when agreeing to this norm is if the majority rules norm is used it can create a strain in the group structure throughout our project, this would not be good.