The chapters I’m going
to incorporate with real life experiences is chapter seven, Groups and
Organizations and chapter eighteen, Families. The reason I chose chapter eighteen
is because I ran cross-country and track for all four years of high school.
During that time, I experienced two different coaches who had different leadership
styles. One being instrumental and the other being expressive. In this chapter we
learned that instrumental leadership focused more on the completion of tasks
and expressive leadership focused more on the groups’ well-being.
My male coach was the coach who had the instrumental leadership
style. He would have my teammates and I set goals early on in the season,
usually after our first track meet of the season. He would have us do this in
hopes that by the end of the season we would have achieved our goal. My
expressive coach who was female, would constantly be encouraging us to have a
positive attitude regardless of how we performed. After every track meet she
would have us say something positive about our performance to boost our
confidence as well as keep up the team morale. This just goes to show that she
was more focused on the well-being of the team rather than how we actually performed.
Thus, making her leadership style expressive.
The reason I chose chapter eighteen, Families, was due to
the fact that my parents have been married for twenty-five years and this
relationship is defined as a monogamist marriage. Since they have been married
and as far back as I can remember, my family and I have lived relatively close
to my father’s family. This relates to the term discussed in this chapter
patrilocality, which is defined as a residential pattern in which a married
couple lives with or near the husband’s family. In my families case, near my
father’s family.
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