social group Flashcards
A social group can be a collection of two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectivity have a sense of unity.
A social group can be a collection of two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectivity have a sense of unity.
Social group
Characteristics of a social group
Reciprocal relationship
Sense of unity and feeling of sympathy towards each other
We-feeling: members defend their interest collectively.
Common interests and ideas
Similar behavior: for achieving the common goals and interest s
Group norms: every group has its own set of rules and norms.
Functions of socialgroup
Defining Boundaries
Choosing leaders
Making decisions
Setting goals
Assigning tasks
Controlling members behavior
Categories of Social Group
1 . Primary Group
2. Secondary Group
3. In-group
4. Out-group
5. Reference group
6. Networks
it is small, intimate and less specialized groups whose members engaged in face to face and emotion based interactions over extended period of time.
primary group
Characteristics of a primary group
Closeness or Physical proximity
Smallness
Durability
Identity of ends
Relationship is an end in itself
Relationship is personal
are larger, less intimate and more specialized groups were member engaged in an impersonal and objective-oriented relationship for a limited time.
secondary group
Characteristics of a secondary group
Large in size
Formality
Impersonality
Indirect cooperation
Voluntary membership
Status depends upon role
Advantages of secondary group
Efficiency
Wider outlook
Wider opportunities
is a group to which we compare ourselves. Reference groups, such as college freshmen, serve as a standard to which we measure our behaviors and attitudes. We use reference groups in order to guide our behavior and attitudes and help us to identify social norms.
reference group
is a group which one belongs and with which one feels a sense of identity
in group
social groups that an individual does not identify with. One feels antagonism and contempt for these groups.
out group
it is a structure of connection of an individual with oneself, with other individuals.
networks
Is a social institution that refers to relations formed between members of society.
kinship
Refers to the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality. It is biological relationship.
descent
-is considered as the most basic and general form of relations. The relationship is achieved by birth or blood affinity. The relationship existing between parents and their children, between siblings and between nieces/nephews and aunts/uncles are examples of this type of kinship.
kinship by blood of consanguineal kinship
principles of descent
unilineal
matrilineal
patrilineal
bilateral
refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs. When marriage takes place, new forms of social relations are developed. The husband forms new relations with his wife and with his wife’s family. In the same manner, the wife also develops new relations with her husband and with her husband’s family.
KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE or AFFINAL KINSHIP
- A socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them.
marriage
Human relation through marriage.
affinity
The social rule which states that a partner must be selected from a person’s own social group.
endogamy
The rule which proclaims that a partner must be chosen from a group different from one’s own.
exogamy
Refers to the marriage of one woman to one man at a time
monogamy
remarriage after death or divorce
serial monogamy
