Lesson 1

Question 1

Beyond the individual, groups are the smaller units that compose society.
Societies can be as big as the members of a particular religious
organization, such as the Filipino Church or Muslim community, or as small
as household.

EX: Filipino Church, different people in a society attending masses every
Sunday, so there, the people who attend masses are considered groups within
society

Answer 1

Groups within society

Question 2

It is a collection of individuals who have relations with one another that
make them interdependent to some significant degree.
EX: As a person, you may belong to many different types of groups: a religious
group, an ethnic group, your workplace colleague group, your college class,
a sports team, etc. These groups can also be called social groups.

Answer 2

Social Group

Question 3

• It is a necessary condition that exists within social groups because it is what enables its members to pursue shared goals or promote common values and principles.
• Interdependence is also what differentiates a social group from an aggregate or a mere collection of people within a particular place and time

Answer 3

Interdependence

Question 4

Two examples of aggregates

Answer 4

• An aggregate is a collection of people who happen to be at the same
  place at the same time but who have no other connection to one another.
• A crowd at a sporting event and the audience at a movie or play are
  examples of social aggregates

Question 5

• A primary group is a small, intimate, and less specialized group whose members engage in face-to-face and emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time.
• The interdependence among members of a primary group is characterized by a deep and profound relationship with each other

EX: Family, Close friends, Work-related peers, Classmates, Church groups

Answer 5

Primary Groups

Question 6

• Network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations.
• The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group.
• According to the Dictionary of Anthropology, kinship system includes socially recognized relationships based on supposed as well as actual genealogical ties. These relationships are the result of social interaction and recognized by society

Answer 6

Kinship

Question 7

• Relationships based upon marriage or cohabitation between collaterals (people treated as the same generation)
• The most primary affinal relationship is the one between a husband and a wife which in its extended form includes parents and siblings of both sides and their spouses and children.
• Hence, the relationship between son-in-law and father-in-law is an example of affinal kinship

Answer 7

Affinal Kinship

Question 8

• Connections between people that are traced by blood.
• The relationship between a child and his parents, between children of the same set of parents, between uncles and nephews/nieces are examples of consanguineous kinship

Answer 8

Consanguineous Kinship

Question 9

• These are larger, less intimate, and more specialized groups where members engage in an impersonal and objective-oriented relationship for a limited time.
• The impersonal nature of interaction between members of secondary groups allows one to treat others as merely a means to achieve his or her immediate objectives

Answer 9

Secondary groups

Question 10

A group to which one belongs and with which one feels a sense of identity.

EX: A religious community (shared beliefs), a sports team (shared commitment and goals) a small business’s employees (shared workplace and goals)

Answer 10

In-Group

Question 11

A group to which one does not belong and to which he or she may feel a sense of competitiveness of hostility.

EX: The marching band performing at a sports team’s game (the band is not part of the sport’s team; the players are part of the sports event)

Answer 11

Out-Group

Question 12

It is an exclusive all male student organization

Answer 12

Fraternity

Question 13

It is an exclusive all-female organization

Answer 13

Sorority

Question 14

• It is also a network that weaves past and present members into an interconnected entity from different generations.
• This enables them to become powerful groups with a nationwide reach as their older members become influential members of society, government, the private sector, and many institutions

Answer 14

Fraternity and Sorority

Question 15

• It refers to the structure of relationships between social actors or groups.
• These are interactions, ties, and linkages between people, their groups, and
  the larger social institutions to which they all belong to

Answer 15

Networks

Question 16

It is a significant development in the twenty-first century and its rapid evolution continues to change the way people manage the complicated nature of their social relationships and group affinities

Answer 16

Social Media

Question 17

• Networks are exclusive, limited, and mostly defined by kinship.
• They provide solidarity through shared identities and a simple division of
  labor and social roles.

Answer 17

Traditional or primitive societies

Question 18

Redefined the safe and secure arrangement provided by traditional networks by allowing individual to become part of a more expanded and cosmopolitan network with overlapping circles of social interaction

Answer 18

Modern Society

Question 19

• Provides an important context in understanding how various groups are
  interrelated with one another.
• It also provides a bigger pool from which people draw their possible sources
  of identity, self-esteem, and self-actualization

Answer 19

Social Network