SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Milgram Experiment, Peter Principle, Groupthink
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Don"t belong together and don"t interact with one another. Primary group: small group characterized by intimate, long-term, face-to-face association and cooperation: family is your main primary group, form social nature and individual ideals, mirror within: forms the perspective from which you look out onto the world. Secondary groups: larger, more anonymous, and more formal and impersonal. Based on shared interests or activities, and their members are likely to interact on the basis of specific statuses: voluntary associations: group made up of volunteers who organize on the basis of some mutual interest. Girl scouts, boy scouts, roman catholic, baptist, political parties, unions, health clubs, etc. In groups: we feel loyalty; shape our perception of right and wrong. Out groups: we feel antagonism: them : the us , sororities, sports, clubs, etc, no desire to be in this group, gang v. gang.
