U5L1: Primary and Secondary Groups

• unit of interacting personalities with the interdependence of roles and statuses existing among them

  social group
• collection of people whose members interact with each other in accordance with the position they occupy and the roles they are expected to perform

  group
• CHARACTERISTICS OF A SOCIAL GROUP:

  1. members interact over some period of time
  2. each member identifies w the group; is recognized by other members
  3. each member is entitled to certain privileges; is also expected to accept certain responsibilities and duties
  4. there is specialization, or role in their activities carried out by the members
• what are the four patterns of classifying groups

  • nature of social ties
  • self identification
  • purpose
  • social organization
• • this nature of social ties is the basic universal relationship.
  • this is the kind where members have intimate, personal "face to face" relationship.
  • this is where members internalize their own values

  primary group
• • the type of social ties is characterized by bonds of tenderness, sympathy, mutuality of interest, "we" feeling.
  • this is considered as the "nursery of human nature"


  primary group
• three examples of primary groups

  family, neighborhood, peer group
• • this type of primary group is united by blood (consaguinity)
  • oldest institution
  • basic unit of society


  family
• • the type of primary peer group where it is a geographically localized community within a larger city, town, suburb, or rural area

  neighborhood
• • type of primary group where the spatial units in which face to face social interactions occur.
  • it is also where residents seek to realize common values, socialize the youth, and maintain social control

  neighborhood
• • the core essence of filipino culture
  • helping out one's neighbor as a community.
  • also called "community spirit".
  • it is best exhibited when people wish to move locations like the "bahay kubo"(traditional filipino house)


  bayanihan
• • type of primary group, two or more members who are the same age with a loosely organized structure.
  • often called gang, barkada, tropa.
  • plays an important role in the socialization of child and has powerful influence in development of personality

  peer group
• • type of primary group that influences norms, values, interests, activities of its members
  • plays a cruciaal role in influencing a child's style and prerogative


  peer group
• • nature of social ties which the individual comes in contact with later in life.
  • characterized by impersonal, business-like, formal, contractual, and casual relationships


  secondary group
• • nature of social ties that is larger in size, short duration, physically and spatially distant with other groups
  • they engage in secondary interactions because people need other people and have certain obligations toward them

  secondary group
• examples of secondary groups:

  • employee to employee relationships
  • vendor to client
  • doctor to patient
  • mechanic to client
  • accountant office
  • drugstore
  • university class
  • athletic team
  • workers in an office
• functions of secondary group:

  • people's roles are more interchangeable
  • secondary group is one you have CHOSEN to be a part of; based on interest and activities. can meet as close friends or just call acquaintances
  • group which one exchanges explicit commodities like labor for wages, services, payments, etc.