SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Mcdonaldization, Mcjob, Hawthorne Effect
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Social group: collection of two or more people who interact frequently with one another, share sense of belonging, and having feeling of interdependence. Aggregate: collection of people who happen to be in same place at same time but have little else in common. Ex: people waiting in traffic, shoppers at a store. Category: people who may never have met one another but who share a similar characteristic. Formal organization: structured group formed to achieve specific goals in most efficient manner. Primary group: small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotional-based interactions over time. Secondary group: larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for limited time. Ingroup: group to which a person belongs and with which person feels a sense of identity. Outgroup: group to which person doesn"t belong and toward which person may feel sense of competitiveness or hostility. Group boundaries may be formal, with clearly defined criteria for membership.
