QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS

1		Poole refers to group communication as action rather than behavior. How does his choice of words reflect a rejection of the phase or single-sequence model of group decision making?
2		Poole and Giddens regard the duality of structure as the key to understanding structuration. In what way could consensus as rule and resource be both the medium and the outcome of an interaction?
3		Suppose you've been elected by communication majors to represent student opinion to department faculty. In what way is your role both a rule and a resource? How could you produce and/or reproduce student influence?
4		Why do you or don't you consider adaptive structuration theory to be a separate theory from Giddens' structuration theory? Should both names appear in the chapter heading? (Poole and Giddens?) (Giddens and Poole?)