SOCA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Milgram Experiment, Groupthink, Solomon Asch
15 Feb 2017
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Primary groups: characterized by intense emotional ties, intimacy, and identification with membership in the group, friends, family partners, exert a long-lasting influences on the development of our social selves, satisfy personal needs of belonging and fulfillment. Secondary groups: large, impersonal groups with minimal emotions and intimate ties, classrooms, workplace, sports team, join to achieve some specific goal. Social networking sites and virtual, online groups can be considered primary or secondary groups. Cooley"s looking glass self: we judge ourselves by how we think we appear to others. Reference group: provides a standard for judging our own attitudes or behaviors: family, peer groups, social media, advertising and media. Georg simmel: group size affects quality of interaction and effectiveness in accomplishing tasks. Dyad: group of two persons: require full attention and cooperation of both, strong bond, but fragile stability, cultural and legal norms arise to support.
