SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Group, Ingroups And Outgroups, Class Discrimination
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We spend most of our time in groups, including families, friends, school and work groups. Social group: a collection of two or more people who interact frequently with one another, share a sense of belonging, and have a feeling of interdependence. Aggregate: a collection of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time but have little else in common (shoppers at a department store) Category: a number of people who may never have met one another but who share a common characteristic (ethnicity, age, gender, education level) Categories are not social groups because the people in them do not create a social structure, or don"t have anything in common except a particular trait. People in aggregates and in categories can form social groups. Primary and secondary groups (see definitions from print outs) Ingroup: a group to which a person belongs and with which the person feels a sense of identity.
