SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Group
8 Jul 2018
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Despite this di erence, the interest for individualistic freedoms and rights, is found in. We must be careful of this growth as our social groups are still critically important to. Social groups share interests, goals, kinship, economic, religious, cultural and. A social group comprises of two or more people interacting with one another. emotional ties to one another. If people only share a common status or characteristics but not an identity, do not constitute as social groups, but are social categories. Primary groups which consist of personal and close relations such as family members or friends. Secondary groups which consist of weak and impersonal relations but are connected through goals. An example of this is co-workers and classmates. There are three types of group leaders: instrumental leadership - the leader is less concerned with the wellbeing of group members and more focused on the task at hand.
