Cohesiveness

After reading the excerpt The Nature of Group Cohesion, I came across numerous examples of being cohesive within a group. Cohesion was defined as “strong sense of belonging to an integrated community-are actively involved in their groups are more enthusiastic about their groups, and even suffer from fewer social and interpersonal problems.”  This quote retains to me because I believe and work along with this quote because I believe in order to have success within a group differences within one another has to be set aside in order to accomplish a goal that was settled for the individuals. For example in the passage the hockey team was once against each other because they all remember each other from when they competed against each other in high school. But due to their differences they put their dissimilarities aside in order to win games that were held upon them.  I have been in this predicament before with a group of individuals I played with on my softball team. We all had known each other from playing against one another in recreation softball in our communities and we held hate and competition within each other because we always wanted to beat them. But when we got older and went to the same high school and played softball together, we had to sit our differences aside because being divided within one another would only let our team fall and not win any games we played in. “Forces that keep a group intact by pushing members and countering forces that push them apart.” This quote correlates with me because within the team we set aside issues that we knew would be pushing us apart. As years went by we grew close with each other and started calling each other a family because held similarities and passions with each other because we worked together to accomplish our objectives and did it with positive attitude and unity. Another example of cohesion I settled with was having a roommate. “They would even sacrifice their individual desires for the good of the group.” Having a roommate to me made me be cohesive because my roommate and I shared a little room together that we would take up our personal space, but in order to have a good year in college and with each other we had to come together and make sacrifices and be unified as one.  My roommate and I shared many differences with each other because we were totally opposite, but she and I decided to make arrangements of who took a shower at a certain time to make sure we did not have any differences that would lead to us not enjoying our freshman year in college. “The ease with which cohesiveness can be described has been accompanied by an astonishing difficulty in defining it in an agreed on-matter.” Reviewing this quote acknowledged to me that difficulties should be worked out to have ease.