ACCT-2130 : Test 3 Study Guide 8 Am Spring 13
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Social groups: people who share some attribute, identify with one another, and interact. Primary group: face to face interaction, emotional satisfaction, deeper feelings, responsible for most of our socialization. Secondary group: larger, less intimate, specific goal, often temporary. Dynamics: dyads: 2, triads: 3, out group: feels opposition or hostility towards (bama fans) In group: identifies with and feels loyalty towards (lsu football fans) Reference group: group that provides standard of comparison (pro basketball players for young basketball players, standards of parents or siblings) Social network: web of social ties that links individual to others. Influence of one"s group on attitudes and behaviors. Experiments: solomon asch: conform to other"s judgments, 37% of people went against personal judgment to conform to group (1/3) Prediction: 1/10 of 1% would not give high electric shocks.
