Week 2-3 Flashcards
Is a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationship
Primary group
3 types of primary groups
Family
Friends
Love relationships
Spend a significant amount of time together, allowing the members to support, comfort, and encourage one another
Family
They often spend a lot of time experiencing adventures together, chatting about personal stories and simply enjoying each-others’ company.
Friends
A couple in a love relationship is first brought together as a result of a mutual physical and emotional attraction. They spend a significant amount of time together, whether that involves learning about one another or collectively sharing new experiences.
love relationships
are large clusters of people who have a mutually shared purpose, often aiming to complete tasks
secondary group
is a group wherein people feel that they are part of the social group.
In group
It is where a social group with which an individual does not identify to be a part of. It is a social category or group with which you do not identify
Out-group
is a group to which we compare ourselves
Reference groups
based on the groups shared interests and goals. Members react on a personal level
Informal reference group
have a specific goal or mission
Formal reference groups
groups that are in agreement with in regards to attitude, norms, and behaviors.
Membership reference groups
Group we do not agree with in regards to attitudes, norms, and behaviors.
Disclaimant reference groups
a group an individual doesn’t belong to but aspires to become a part in the future.
Aspirational reference groups
a group an individual doesn’t belong to and disapproves of in regards to attitudes, norms, and behaviors
Dissociative reference groups
is a theoretical construct useful in the social sciences to study relationships between individuals, groups, organizations, or even entire societies. It is a social structure exists between actors (individuals and organizations).
Social network
smallest level of analysis of social networks
Micro
4 levels of micro
Dyadic
Triadic
Actor
Subset
generally trace the outcomes of interactions, such as economic or other resource transfer interactions over a large population
Macro
group of people that has distributive task for a collective goal
Organizations
Affiliates an individual with kin of both sexes related to him or her through men only
Patrilineal descent
Affiliates an individual with kin of both sexes related to him or her through women only.
Matrilineal descent
It is a set of kin whose members trace descent from a common ancestor through known links. They are often designated by the name of the common male or female ancestor.
Lineages
It is a set of kin whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor but not that specified.
Clans
