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• Primary Group is a small, intimate, and less specialized group.
• Secondary Group are larger, less intimate, and more specialized groups.
• Self-Categorization Theory is a relevant approach in understanding the characteristics of social groups.
• In Group is a group to which one belongs and with which one feels a sense of identity.
• Out Group is a group to which one does not belong and to which he or she may feel a sense of competitiveness or hostility.
• Reference Group is a group to which an individual compares himself or herself to other influential social groups for an individual.
• Network refers to the structure of relationship between social actors or group.
• Institutional Approach tells us that social institutions are ordered set of rules, norms, beliefs, or values that organize human behavior.
• Relational Approach focuses on social relations rather than rules, norms, beliefs, or values.
• Social Institutions such as the family, economy, education, health, religion, and other non state institutions are the primary example of social institutions.
• Family is considered as a vital constitution and considered as the foundation of the nation.
• Nuclear Families are families that are composed of parents and children.
• Extended Families are those that are composed of the nuclear family and other relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
• Reconstituted Families are composed of the spouses and their children from a previous marriage.
• Kinship is a social structure defined by relations among individuals linked by blood or marriage ties.
• Matrilineal Kinship means that one's descent is based on the female lines.
• Patrilineal Kinship means that one's descent is based on male lines.
• Bilineal Kinship refers to descent system based on both male and female lines.
• Marriage is a culture specific.
• Monogamous means that a spouse cannot have more than one spouse.
• Polygamous means that a person can have more than one spouse.
• The Economy is an institution that addresses questions regarding limited resources of society.
• Adam Smith believes that the market is a self regulating mechanism.
• Bourgeoisie is made up of those who are involved in the financial sector like bankers, industrialists, and owner of corporations.
• Karl Marx believes that Communism is the solution to the alienation of man in a free market system.
• Educational Institutions ensure that individuals are functionally literate.
• Health Institutions ensure that individuals have access to health services to promote universal public health.
• Religion is an institution that involves a set of beliefs and practices of a particular social group.
• Sect is an organized exclusive group.
• Monotheistic refers to religion that believe in only one God.
• Polytheistic religions believe in many gods.
• Aminism is not considered a religion but rather a belief system that holds that both animate and inanimate thing have a spiritual essence.
• Karl Marx believes that religion reinforces social control and is the opiate of the masses.
• Peter Drucker believes that without institution there is no management but without management there is no institutions.