Part III: Social Groups Flashcards
Comprises a number of individuals who exhibit cohesiveness to a larger degree
Aggregate
Consciousness of kind
Tendency of man to join groups who have some similarities with each other
Franklin Giddings
“The spring of life”
Values and attitudes become fused into one’s identity
Primary Groups
4 basic characteristics
- A small group usually fewer than 15 individuals
- Interaction and communication tend to be intimate and personal in nature
- Strong emotional bonds with one another
- Persist over an extended period of time
Relationship are formal and institutional
Lacks one or more characteristics of a primary group
Secondary groups
Any group were people feel belongingness
We or us
In-group
People tend they don’t belong
They or them
Out-group
Individuals who possess a set of similar characteristics by other people
Reference group
Made up of people of relatively equal status, where an individual interacts frequently
Peer group
A group wherein an individual uses his/her free will to join the group
Voluntary group
An individual becomes a member of the group because of factors which he has no control
Involuntary group
Characteristics of groups
- Members remain and communicate with one another.
- Identified through similar characteristics
- Has a certain mechanism for recruiting individuals
- Shares the same goals, purposes and objectives
Identified by abraham maslow as a fundamental to human happiness.
The need for love and belongingness
People join groups to compare their attitudes and benefits to other may it be correcrlted
Social comparison theory
Pioneered social comparison theory
Abraham maslow
