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• Social group


  Two or more people who interact with one another and who recognize themselves as a distinct social unit
• Primary group


  • Small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships
  • Relationships are often long-lasting and goals in themselves
  • Concern for one another, shared activities and culture, and long periods of time spent together
  • Members share intimate and personal relationships, often serving as a support and comfort to those involved
• Primary group


  • Family
  • Friends
  • Love relationships
• Secondary group


  • Large cluster of people who have a mutually shared purpose, often aiming to complete tasks
  • Interact on a less personal level than primary group, and their relationships are temporary
  • Established to perform function, people's role is more interchangeable compared to primary group
• Secondary group


  • School/class
  • Workplace or place of employment
• "We"


  People who are considered part of a certain group
• "They"


  People who do not belong to a certain group
• In-group


  Groups to which a person belongs, where they feel comfortable and share common experiences
• Out-group


  Groups to which a person does not belong, due to differences they do not identify with
• Social group


  Two or more people who interact with one another and who recognize themselves as a distinct social unit
• Primary group


  • Small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships
  • Relationships are often long-lasting and goals in themselves
  • Concern for one another, shared activities and culture, and long periods of time spent together
  • Members share intimate and personal relationships, often serving as a support and comfort to those involved
• Primary groups


  • Family
  • Friends
  • Love relationships
• Secondary group


  • Large cluster of people who have a mutually shared purpose, often aiming to complete tasks
  • Interact on a less personal level than primary groups
  • Relationships are temporary
  • People's roles are more interchangeable compared to primary groups
• Secondary groups


  • School/class
  • Workplace or place of employment
• "We"

  People who are considered part of a certain group
• "They"

  People who do not belong to a certain group
• In-group

  Groups to which a person belongs, where they feel comfortable and share common experiences
• Out-group

  Groups to which a person does not belong, due to differences they do not identify with
• Reference group

  A group to which we compare ourselves, serving as a standard to measure our behaviors and attitudes
• Types of reference groups

  • Informal reference group
  • Formal reference group
  • Membership reference group
  • Disclaimant reference group
  • Aspirational reference group
  • Dissociative reference group
• Social network


  An individual's scope or total set of relationships with others, indicating the ways they are connected through various social familiarities
• Levels of social network analysis

  • Micro (dyadic, triadic, actor, subset)
  • Meso (organizations, scale-free networks)
  • Macro (tracing outcomes of interactions over a large population)
• Social distance


  Measure of the degree of closeness or acceptance felt toward other groups
• Personal space distance zones


  • Intimate distance (about 18 inches)
  • Personal distance (18 inches to 4 feet)
  • Social distance (4 feet to 12 feet)
  • Public distance (beyond 12 feet)
• Kinship


  The "web of social relationships" humans form as part of a family, the smallest unit of society
• Marriage


  A special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life
• Household


  Consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and share meals or living accommodation, may be a single family or other grouping
• Types of kinship by blood


  • Patrilineal (tracing ancestry from father's side)
  • Matrilineal (tracing ancestry from mother's side)
  • Bilineal (tracing ancestry from both paternal and maternal sides)
• Kinship by marriage


  When a person marries, they establish relationships not only with their spouse but also with their spouse's family members
• Forms of marriage


  • Monogamy (one wife and one husband)
  • Polygamy (more than one spouse)
  • Polyandry (one woman with multiple husbands)
  • Polygyny (one man with multiple wives)
  • Group marriage (multiple husbands and wives)
• Endogamy


  A rule of marriage in which life-partners are selected within the same group (e.g. caste, class, tribe, race, village, religious group)
• Exogamy


  A rule of marriage in which an individual has to marry outside their own group, prohibiting marriage within the group
• Polyandry


  A form of marriage in which one woman may have more than one husband at a time
• Polygyny


  A form of marriage in which a man may have more than one wife at a time
• Group Marriage


  The family unit consists of multiple husbands and multiple wives
• Endogamy


  A rule of marriage in which the life-partners are to be selected within the group (e.g. caste, class, tribe, race, village, religious group)
• Endogamous marriages


  • Interracial marriage (ASIAN and EUROPEAN; AMERICAN and ASIA)
• Exogamy


  A rule of marriage in which an individual has to marry outside his own group. It prohibits marrying within the group.
• Exogamous marriage


  • Traditional Chinese families prefer their sons to marry someone who also belongs to Chinese families
• Kinship by ritual


  A privileged social relationship established by ritual, such as that of Godparents or fraternal orders