ucsp

• Social group - is a unit of people who interact with some regularity, and who indentify themselves as one unit.
• types of groups according to influence, according to membership, reference group, network
• Primary - it is small, intimate , and less specialized groups whose members engaged in face to face and emotion-based interactions over extended period of time
• Characteristics of primary: 1. closeness or physical proximity 2. smallness 3. durability 4. Identity ends 5. relationship is an end in itself

  6. relationship is personal
• Characteristics of secondary

  1. Large in size
  2. Formality
  3. Impersonality
  4. Indirect cooperation
  5. Voluntary membership
  6. Status depends upon role
• In-group - is a group to which one belongs and with which one feels a sense of identity
• Out-group - is a group which one does not belong and to which one feels a sense of competitiveness and hostily
• Reference group - are those that provide an individual with a set of standards to check against and to know if one is doing well or where he or she needs improvement
• Networks - this is the entirely of social connections as individual takes part in for whatever purpose (economic, political, etc.) and through whatever means (face-to-face interaction, virtual interaction, indirect interaction, etc.)
• three types of interactions

  1. Face to face interaction
  2. Virtual Interaction
  3. Indirect interaction
• out group is a group which one does not belong ang to which one feels a sense of Competitiveness and Hostility
• in group is a group to which one belongs and which one feels a sense of identity