SOCI 1010 Lecture 1: GroupsandOrganizations
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Social group is a collection of 2 or more ppl who interact frequently with one another, share a sense of belonging and have a feeling of interdependence. Aggregate: a collection of ppl who happen to be in the same place at the same time but have little else in common; share a common purpose. E. g. several ppl waiting for a traffic light together. Category: a number of ppl who may never have met one another but who share a similar characteristic, such as education level, age, ethnicity, gender. Primary group: describe as small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion based interactions over an extended time. Secondary group: a larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more impersonal, goal-orientated relationships for a limited time. Ingroup is a group to which a person belongs and with which the person feels a sense of identity.
