SOC Chapter 5 Flashcards
Primary groups
intense emotional ties, intimacy, and identification with membership in the group
Secondary groups
large, impersonal groups with minimal emotional/intimate ties
cooleys looking glass-self
we judge ourselves by how we think we appear to others
Reference groups
provides a standard for judging our own attitudes
George Simmel group sizes
group size affects quality of interaction
Dyad
group of two persons
Triad
group of three people
Alliances or coalitions
groups that may form between two members, enabling them to “gang up” on the third member
Social closure
ability of groups to exclude outsiders or “undesirables” from participating
role
A behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status
role set
To identify a number of roles attached to a single status
role conflict
A conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses
role strain
Tension among the roles connected to a singular status
role exit
The process by which people disengage from important social roles
Transformational Leaders
: instill a sense of mission or higher purpose, transforming the nature of the group
Transactional Leaders
concerned with accomplishing group tasks and goals
Power
ability to mobilize resources and achieve a goal despite resistance of others
Positional Power
stems from the official leadership position
personal power
: derived from the leader’s personality
groupthink
when group members ignore anything that goes against group consensus
Structuralism
The idea that there exists an overarching structure within which culture and other aspects of society must be understood.
Economic capital
: money and material that can be used to produce goods and services
cultural capital
informal, interpersonal skills, habits, manners, linguistic styles, tastes, and lifestyles
social capital
personal connections and networks that enable people to accomplish goals and extend influence
Bureaucracy
based on written procedural rules, hierarchy of authority
Iron cage of bureaucracies
become trapped in a prison of rules and regulations that denies humanity, creativity, and autonomy
