SOC-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Georg Simmel, Social Capital, Snowball Sampling
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The number of social actors in an interaction can give us a lot of information about that interaction. Primary groups- exist for their own sake (original language) A source of close human feelings and emotions: love, cooperation, concern, etc. eg. family unit. Secondary groups- groups we actively seek out, which we naturally are not a part of but choose to be affiliated with (reference groups) Ingroups - defined as a group that you are part of, that you feel connected to with people are like you; from a aggregated level, ingroups are people with popularity, high status. Outgroups - people who are not your ingroup, people you tend to value less, people who are fundamentally different from ourselves (otherization) In-group favoritism - we be nice to in-group, neutral to out-group. Out-group derogation- we be nice to in-group, terrible to out-group, especially when out-group is thought to be threaten or undermine the in-group value.
