Abstract:

Social relationships are decisive in the well-being of people, being considered a productivity factor in working environments and whose influence on teaching-learning processes has been proven on multiple occasions. In a group of 52 students from the fourth year of the Primary Education Teacher Degree (Mention in Therapeutic Pedagogy), difficulties were perceived that affected the development of joint activities in class. From a theoretical deepening and a search for tools for the study of social relations, the sometics software was selected to be used. This is a resource for the design, application and analysis of sociograms that allows its user to determine and graph the individual roles and the interrelationships in a group. With its application, leaders (popular students), excluded (students with the highest number of negative votes), ignored (students who did not receive votes), contradictory (students with the same number of positive and negative votes), mutual rejections and negative-positive cases (a student rejects another, while the latter accepts the first) were identified. The software also proposes groupings based on the results obtained in order to promote integration and strengthen relationships within the group. This is an intuitive program that facilitates the application, registration and analysis of the results of a sociogram. However, we consider that there are some recommendations that could have an impact on its improvement, such as reviewing the syntax of some of the items they propose, modifying terms so as to contribute to greater conceptual clarity in order to avoid confusion or contradictions in their interpretation, and the inclusion of QR codes to facilitate student access to the website and the questionnaire.

Keywords:

Sometics, social relationships, university student bodies.