SOCIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ingroups And Outgroups, Achievement Orientation, Groupthink
12 Aug 2016
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Group: a set of two or more people who interact on the basis of shared expectations and who possess some degree of common identity. Must possess some sense of common identity. Aggregate: a group of people gathered in the same place at the same time who lack organization or lasting patterns of interaction, don"t even need to interact. Ex. people standing in a ticket line at the movies, people waiting to board a plane, people at a sporting event. Social category: a means of classifying people according to a shared trait or a common status. Ex. students, women, roman catholics, sports teams. Some groups differ based off of time. Some groups only meet once and never again. Some groups differ based off of organization. Some groups differ based off of size. Each member has direct control over the group"s existence. (strongest group) The group takes on a life of its own. (weakest group - bc third wheel)
