SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Georg Simmel, Ingroups And Outgroups, Homophily
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Interact regularly: primary group, regular contact, emotional attachment, secondary group. Georg simmel- groups: size of the group matters, dyad- a group of two, triad- group of three, human interaction. (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y the (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity to speak, shaped (cid:271)y the (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity to (cid:271)e sile(cid:374)t(cid:863: secret society- protecting ideas. In-group- powerful group; the majority: positive feelings, out-group- stigmatized group less powerful; minority, negative feelings. Conformity and obedience: asch experiments, group thinking- people reinforce a consensus. Social capital: number of people you know, connections you have, homophily- social contact occurs at a higher rate between people who are similar, causes of similarity and clustering. Friend groups: high school group by race, calli(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e a (cid:862)frie(cid:374)d(cid:863, contact theory- more contact, more mixing, based on similar genetic markers (2014) (1% similarity, hundreds of friendships and stranger pairs, chose opposite immune systems. Trend groups: when all non-conformists look the same (2014, (cid:862)(cid:271)ei(cid:374)g differe(cid:374)t at the sa(cid:373)e ti(cid:373)e(cid:863)
