L2: IN-GROUPS & OUT-GROUPS

IN-GROUPS

  • a Sense of Belongingness
  • Sense of Identity
  • Mutual Social Behavior

OUT-GROUPS

  • Different
  • Strangeness
  • Avoidance
  • Dislike

SOCIAL GROUP: ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE

  1. @@TASK GROUP@@ - formed to accomplish jobs, tasks, or obligations.
  2. @@RELATIONSHIP GROUP@@ - formed to fulfill the feeling of companionship.
  3. @@INFLUENCE GROUP@@ - formed to support a particular ideology.

SOCIAL GROUP: ACCORDING TO SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

This concept was developed by German sociologists Ferdinand Tonnies (1887) to differentiate between urban and rural life or community living and living in the mass society

  1. @@GEMEINSCHAFT@@ - a German term for “community”. Composed of many primary groups that have a personal relationship with each other.
  2. @@GESELLSCHAFT@@ - a German term for “society”. Where relationships are individualistic, impersonal, formal, and realistic.

PEER PRESSURE - ==a social pressure by members of one’s peer group to take certain action in order to be accepted.==