Your college experience leads eventually to your graduation, a ritual process that ushers you into the “real world” where you are expected to find a job and be a productive member of the larger society. in the model of ritual that victor turner describes, what does this entirety of your experience, including the graduation ceremony itself, to promote?

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by stasser and titus (1985) about student council president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that in another condition, members had unique information that other group members didn't know. in the second (unshared information) condition, the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition. this occurred because groups seldom can agree on who is most expert. focus discussion on the information that all members know. often ignore dissenting opinions. avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.