Week 1: Introduction Flashcards
Groups that emerge when interacting individuals gradually align their activities in a cooperative system of interdependence?
Self-organizing Groups
Groups that are emergent, unplanned groups arising when external, situational forces set the stage for people to joint together, often only temporarily, in a unified group?
Circumstantial Groups
Groups that form spontaneously as individuals find themselves repeatedly interacting with the same subset individuals over time and settings?
Emergent Groups
Groups that are planning by one or more individuals who remain within the group?
Founded Groups
Groups that are deliberately formed by the members themselves or by an external authority usually for a specific purpose/s
Planned Groups
Groups that are planned by individuals or authorities outside the group?
Concoted Groups
This type of group is a small long term group that is characterized by face to face interaction and high levels of cohesion, solidarity, and member identification?
Primary groups
This type of group is larger, less intimate, more goal-focused than more complex societies?
Secondary groups
What is the definition of a “group”?
Two or more individuals who are connected to one another by social relationship
Small groups of moderate duration and permeability characterized by large level of interaction among members who value membership in the group?
Intimacy Groups
Work groups in employment settings and goal focused groups in a variety of non-employment situations?
Task Groups
Aggregations of individuals that form spontaneously, last for brief periods, and have very permeable boundaries?
Weak Association Groups
Aggregation of individuals similar to one another in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, or nationality?
Social Category Groups
What is the term for expected behaviors of people who occupy certain position?
Roles
What is the term for agreement of standards that describe what behaviors are and are not to be performed in a given context?
Norms
