SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Control Theory, Informal Social Control, Marxist Sociology
21 Dec 2012
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Social forms - basic elements of social structure that include groups, networks, communities, and organizations. Dyad any interaction which includes two nodes; whenever two units interact it forms a dyad. With three people, if only two people (alliance) agree, the third person does not matter. Robert bales (t-groups) revealed that each group produced 3 social forms: a task leader; an emotional leader; a joker. All three roles are equally important for success. Social structure the invisible feature of social life that controls and transforms our behaviour that is mainly of interest to sociologists. They become sociologically interesting when people dramatize (or socially construct) meanings for differences between one category and another. Networks also social networks, sets of nods (individuals, groups or people, organizations) connected by ties across which social and material resources are exchanged. Mark granovetter (1974) argued that weakly tied networks based largely on indirect links, may be even more useful than strongly tied or completely connected networks.
