SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Reference Group, Groupthink, Social Group

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Social groups: 2+ people who idenify with and interact with one another, primary and secondary groups. Primary group: small social group whose members share personal and lasing relaionships. Secondary group: large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a speciic goal or acivity. Weak emoional ies and litle personal knowledge of each other. Tend to keep score of what we give and what we receive in return: group leadership. Instrumental leadership: group leadership that focuses on the compleion of tasks. Expressive leadership: group leadership that focuses on the groups" well-being: take less interest in achieving goals. Instrumental leaders enjoy more respect from members and expressive leaders receive more personal afecion. Democraic: tries to include everyone in the decision-making process. Laissez-faire leadership: allows group to funcion on their own: group conformity. E. g. teens are anxious to it in and someimes do bad things. Person knew the answer was incorrect but said it was correct anyway because conformity.