SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cisgender, Occupy Movement, Milgram Experiment
30 Nov 2018
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Collectivity is an umbrella term - any distinct grouping of people. It is a group because we consider it a group. Huge variety in the size, form, composition, structure, etc. of groups. One useful distinction (charles horton cooley): primary versus secondary groups. Asks about who we discuss important matters with. Asks about those people"s relationship with each other and respondent. Membership and relations between members are formalized. One reason to study groups specifically is to understand how they constrain/enable their members. Groups and organizations adopt and promote certain practices. Ex: practices of soldiers in the military. Ex: dorm mates meeting for the first time. Different possible organizing logics exist that different groups and formal organizations can adopt to and shape and justify their actions. Shifts in institutional logics used to explain change in behaviour of groups and individual within those groups individual within those groups. Ex: shift in universities logic from science to market motivations (elizabeth.
