ISS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Tertius Of Iconium, Georg Simmel, Embeddedness
18 Jul 2019
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A group of people is waiting to be helped at a customer service desk in a store. A woman in the waiting area suddenly clears her throat and spits on the floor. Everyone else in the room is taken aback and gives her a dirty look. The woman who spit on the floor is not conforming to social norms that are shared by the other people in the room. According to the sociologist georg simmel, what is the single most important factor in predicting the behavior of members of a social group? the number of people in the group. Mutually dependent: if one member leaves, the group ends. Tertius gaudens one who profits from disagreement with the others. Melinda and justin are co-leads on a project at work, but their working styles differ greatly and they are having trouble agreeing on procedures and objectives.
