MODULE 5 HOW SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED

Social Group

GROUPS WITHIN SOCIETY

It is a COLLECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE RELATIONS WITH ONE ANOTHER that make them interdependent to some significant degree.

Interdependence

GROUPS WITHIN SOCIETY

Is shared a NECESSARY CONDITION that exists within social group BECAUSE IT IS WHAT ENABLES ITS MEMBERS TO PURSUE SHARED GOALS or promote common values and principles.

Primary Groups

GROUPS WITHIN SOCIETY

It is a SMALL, INTIMATE, LESS SPECIALIZED GROUP whose members engage in face to face and emotion based interactions over an extended period of time.

Secondary Groups

GROUPS WITHIN SOCIETY

LARGER, LESS INTIMATE & MORE SPECIALIZED GROUPS where members engage in an IMPERSONAL AND OBJECTIVE ORIENTED relationship for a LIMITED TIME.

In-group

It is a SOCIAL CATEGORY WHERE PEOPLE FEEL THEY BELONG & SHARE A COMMON ORIENTATION, come from common tools and background, and adhere to a common ideology.

• MUTUAL EXPRESSION: “in” and “us”

• CHARACTERIZED by individuals whose LOYALTY to each other brings out the feeling of togetherness.

• The members experience FEELINGS OF COMRADESHIP.

Out-group

THEY FEEL THEY ARE STRANGERS.

• A group which is made up of INDIVIDUALS WHO DO NOT SHARE AWARENESS OF KIND/SAME CLASS.

• ATTITUDE LEADS TO DISLIKE, AVOIDANCE, and antagonism or even hatred toward people because of our predisposition to perceive our own ingroup as superiors to them

Reference groups

Which people IDENTIFY PSYCHOLOGICALLY & WHICH THEY REFER IN EVALUATING HEMSLEVES & BEHAVIOR.

• BECOMES THE INDIVIDUAL’S FRAME OF REFERENCE in relation to his motivations, experiences, attitudes and social affinity.

• Serves as SOURCE OF ASPIRATION & GOOD ATTAINMENT.

Networks

A STRUCTURE OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL ACTORS OR GROUPS.

• These are INTERCONNECTIONS, TIES, AND LINKAGES BETWEEN PEOPLE and their groups and the larger social institutions to which they all belong to.

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