SOCPSY 2YY3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 00: Social Status, Collective Behavior, Georg Simmel
1 Dec 2017
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Group processes: refers to the study of how basic social processes operate in group contexts. When people organize in groups to complete tasks, the recognition that people receive for their performances often don"t match the quality of their contributions. When groups forms to complete tasks, men tend to get more credit than women do for the same contributions. Group: any interaction involving more than one person. Sociological social psychologists are more interested in the processes that occur in groups. E. g. how statuses w/in a group are formed. Psychological social psychologists are more interested in the groups themselves. E. g. the characteristics of the group itself and the factors that attributed to a group"s failure or success. This perspective doesn"t have a specific set of principles. Certain basic social processes tend to play out in group contexts no matter the group"s size. We experience processes in relation to other people: they only exist in the context of our relationships w/ others.
