UCSP (4th Quarter) Reviewer

• Social Aggregates


  A simple collection of people who happened to be together in a particular place but not significantly interact or recognize with one another
• Social Categories


  People who share a common characteristic (such as gender or occupation) but do not necessarily interact or identify with one another
• Group


  A collection of individuals who have regular contact and frequent interaction, mutual influence, and common feeling of belongingness, and who work together to achieve a common set of goals
• Group


  • Can be defined as a collection of people who regularly interact with one another on the basis of shared expectations concerning behavior and who share a sense of common identity
• Primary Group


  A typically small social group whose members share close, personal and enduring relationships, are marked by the members concern for one another and shared activities and culture, and includes intimate relationships and are usually long-lasting
• Secondary Group


  Can be small or large group, they are impersonal and usually short-term, although the members have some similar interest, the purpose of the group is about the task instead of the relationship
• Peer Group


  A group with members of approximately the same age, social status and interest, where people are relatively equal in terms of power when they interact with peers
• Clique


  A group of people that have many of the same interest and commonly found in high school or college setting, most of the time they have a name and rules for themselves
• Club


  A group which usually requires one to apply to become a member
• Cabal


  A group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interest in a church, state or other community, often by intrigue
• Household


  All individuals who live in the same home
• Community


  A social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity, which may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area or in virtual space through communication platforms
• Gang


  Usually an urban group that gathers in a particular area, a group of people that often hang around each other
• Mob


  A group of people that has taken the law into their own hands, they gather for a particular reason
• Squad


  This is usually a small group of around 3 to 15 people who work as a team to accomplish their goals
• Dyad


  A social group with 2 members, where social interaction is more intense than larger groups because neither member shares the others attention with anyone else
• Triad


  A social group with 3 members, which contains three relationships, each uniting two of the three people, and is more stable than a dyad because one member can act as a mediator
• Team


  Similar to squad though a team may contain many more members, a team works in a similar way to a squad
• Reference Group


  The group to which we compare ourselves, used in order to guide our behavior and attitudes and help us to identify social norms
• In-Group


  A social group to which an individual feels he or she belongs, one feels loyalty and respect for these groups
• Out-Group


  A social group that an individual does not identify with, one feels antagonism and contempt for these groups
• Kinship


  A social institution that refers to relations formed between members of society
• Consanguineal Kinship(Kinship by Blood)


  • The relationship is achieved by birth or blood affinity
  • The relationship existing between: Parents and their Children, Siblings, Nieces and Nephews, Aunt and Uncle
• Descent

  • A biological relationship
  • An individual's child or offspring
  • His or her parents and ancestry
• Unilineal Descent


  • Both males and females are members of a unilineal family but their descent lines are recognized only through relatives of either the male or female member
• Patrilineal Descent


  • Both males and females belong to the kin group of their father but they do not belong to their mother's kin group
  • Only the males pass on to their children their family identity
• Matrilineal Descent


  • Focuses on the unilineal descent that is traced through the female line
  • Both male and female offspring are considered members of the mother's matrilineal descent group but only the daughters can pass on the family line to their offspring
• Bilateral Descent


  • Kinship is traced through both ancestral lines of the mother and father
• Affinal Kinship(Kinship by Marriage)


  Refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs
• Marriage


  • An important social institution wherein two persons, a man and a woman, enter into family life
  • During this process, the partners make a public, official and permanent declaration of their union as lifetime couples
• Endogamy


  • Compulsory marriage in their own village, community, ethnic, social or religious group
• Exogamy


  • Refers to a marriage custom where an individual is required by society's norms and rules to marry outside of their own group, community or social classes
• Monogamy


  • Came from the Greek words "monos" and "gamos" which literally means ONE UNION
  • Refers to the marriage where an individual has only one male or female partner
• Polygyny


  • A man has multiple female partners
• Polyandry


  • A woman has multiple male partners
• Polygamy


  Refers to the practice of having more than one partner
• Patrilocal Rule of Residence


  • Occurs when married couples stay in the house of the husband's relatives or near the husbands kin
• Matrilocal Rule of Residence


  • Happens when the couple lives with the wife's relatives or near the wife's kin
• Biolocal Residence


  • Happens when the newlywed couple stay with the husband's relatives and the wife's kin alternately
• Child Marriage


  • It happens when parents arrange for the marriage of their child long before the marriage takes place. The marriage will be consummated in the future