How Society is Organized | SOCIO 100 Flashcards
Can be defined as a collection of people who regularly interact with one another on the basis of shared expectations concerning behavior and who share a sense of common identity and as a result of this interaction, the members of the group feel a common sense of belonging.
SOCIAL GROUP
What are the two types of Social groups?
Aggregate & Category
Cluster of people who may be on close physical proximity but do not interact with one another.
AGGREGATE
A collection of people with common traits and interests. These people may not be physically together, and may have limited to no social interaction at all, but their sense of belongingness and identity.
CATEGORY
A necessary condition that exists within social groups.
Enables members to pursue shared goals or promote common values and principles.
INTERDEPENDENCE
Refers to a cluster of people interacting with one another is an passing or short-lived manner.
COLLECTIVITY
To be called a social group we must possess the following:
INTERDEPENDENCE & COLLECTIVITY
What are the social group according to ties?
PRIMARY GROUP & SECONDARY GROUP
It is a long-lasting group whose members have intimate, personal, continuous, face-to-face relationships.
PRIMARY GROUP
Usually large in size (not always), not very enduring, and with limited relationships, weak ties of affection, weak personal identity with the group and limited face-to-face interaction. Characterized by impersonal, business-like, contractual, formal, and casual relationships.
Only interests and goals are the connections.
SECONDARY GROUP
An American Sociologist, introduces the concept of primary group to describe certain groups in the society. He regarded the families as primary groups, because they are the first groups experienced by an individual.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
What are the social groups according to organizations?
In-group and Out-group
It is a social unit to which individuals feel at home and with which they identify. It produces a “WE FEELING.”
IN-GROUP
It is a social unit to which individuals do not belong due to differences in certain social categories and with which they do not identify. Often viewed as “THEY”
OUT-GROUP
What are the social group according to self identificiation?
Reference Group, Positive Reference Group, Negative Reference Group, Network
The social comparison theory tells us that humans have an innate drive to produce accurate evaluations of oneself.
SOCIAL COMPARISON THEORY
Component that individuals use as a standard towards the achievement of a desired behavior in making judgment about the quality of life or things. Any group to which an individual compares himself.
REFERENCE GROUP
Are those of which one aspires to be part. The norms of these groups are followed by people in the hopes of being accepted in the group itself.
POSITIVE REFERENCE GROUP
A group which people do not want to identify with. As a result, norms of the negative reference groups are usually avoided.
NEGATIVE REFERENCE GROUP
A group that includes individuals who come into casual connection but who do not have enough sense of belongingness.
NETWORK
TRUE OR FALSE
Network cannot be considered as a group since the social ties connecting its members are too weak to establish a sense of belonging and boundary.
TRUE - According to Herbert Hyman
A behavior that we all do without talking about our response towards something. (ex. Car Accident, Earthquake, Watching Horror movie)
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
What is the function of Social Group?
1.) Involves limited and short-lived social interactions, while groups tend to remain together longer.
2.) Has no clear boundaries; anyone can be a member of the collective, while membership is usually more discriminating.
3.) Generates weak and unconventional norms, while groups tend to have stronger and more conventional norms.
What are the forms of collective behavior?
CROWD
An unorganized temporary group of people confronted by a novel or problematic-situation gathered at a particular time and place.
CROWD
What are the types of Crowd?
CaCoAE
Participants are gathered because of an event or happening.
CASUAL CROWD
Characterized by established, regular ways of behavior like those of the time and place of performance, order of activities, and certain ways of behaving. Can determine when will happen.
CONVENTIONAL CROWD
Members are actually involved in the event in pursuit of a goal.
ACTING CROWD
Are people who join together to express emotion, often at funerals, weddings, or the like.
EXPRESSIVE CROWD
What are the forms of collective behavior?
MASS BEHAVIOR/INTERACTION
Forms of moral behavior that are longer in duration that the crowd and considered to be more of responses to opportunities rather than threats.
MASS BEHAVIOR/INTERACTION
A collective behavior that takes place when people respond to the same event in the same way. (efioque.com)
MASS BEHAVIOR/INTERACTION
What are the Types of Mass Interaction?
FFTC
Fashion
Trend
Fad
Craze
(4)
Refers to the changes in the lifestyle of clothing, hair, style, houses or cars; the changes are cyclical in the sense that it has the tendency to reappear.
FASHION
A behavior or new way of doing things and it has a big impact on our society. It is a sequential pattern of change in a condition, output, or process, or an average or general tendency of series of data points to move in a certain direction overtime, represented by a line of curve on a graph.
TREND
Is a short-term event, that some may called as a “flash in the pan.” In economics, a product that has little, if any, utility but is characterized by a quick rise in sales and popularity followed by a quick decline in sales and popularity.
FAD
Develops when a particular object is given an unusually high value, and as a result serves as one of those obsessions of an individual.
CRAZE
What are the forms of collective behavior?
PROPAGANDA
A deliberate attempt to lead people to accept a certain idea or belief and so influence their opinions and behavior.
PROPAGANDA
What are the modern devices for propaganda?
NTCBSBP
Trying to give a shorthand of stimulus by summarizing an idea in one word which has a special meaning.
Way of smearing an opponent. Giving a person or an idea a bad label by using an easy to remember pejorative name.
NAME CALLING
Marketing strategy that utilizes customer testimonials to promote products or services.
This technique consists of having respected people or endorsers.
TESTIMONIAL
Designates the use of carefully bits of information which present only one side of the topic. Not telling lies, but not telling the whole truth.
CARD STACKING
This common propaganda method is when the speaker tries to convince us to accept their point of view or else we will miss out on something really good.
This technique is often used in advertising.
It is linked to the popular notion that the majority is always right, so why not follow.
BANDWAGON
This technique is used to play for more time or to avoid answering a pointed question.
STALLING
It is the technique of springing the fault on somebody else.
BUCK PASSING
