Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is an in group?
Where you belong and feel a sense of identity
What is an out group?
Where you don’t belong and feel a sense of competition
What are the purposes of in and out groups?
Creating solidarity, identity, cohesion
What is a reference group?
An in group that strongly influences begavior and social cues (EG alien abduction subculture)
What is an argot?
Group speific language
What is a reference group?
A group you’re in that’s important to you that you draw a lot of personal identity from/identify with (other than primary)
What is conformity?
Maintaining behavior to conform to norms
What is groupthink? Why might it be bad?
Members arrive at decisions as a cohesive unit, which may be unwise due to poor leadership and group norms
What are the 3 types of formal organizations?
Normative, coercive, utilitarian
What is a normative organization?
A voluntary group you join to achiece a purpose (EG sorority, club)
What is a coercive organization?
An organization to completely resocialize people. EG prison, psych institutions, boot camp
What is a ultilitarian organization?
An organization you join as means to an end (college to get a job, job for $)
What is a bureacracy?
Organizational model with
Hierarchy of authority
Division of labor
Explicit rules and procedures
Full time staff
What is the purpose of bureacracies?
Better for market exonomies
What are some problems with bureacracies?
Goal displacement (regularions more detailed that they need to be), resistant to change, leaders clinging to power
