SOCL 2001 : Exam 2 Study Guide
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Chapter 6: groups - people connected to each other in some way and interact more than once, primary group - people who are closest to us (immediate family, closest friends). Secondary groups - involves people who are not so close. We are still friendly towards them and react with them on a regular basis. We tend to be just acquaintances: larger in size, brief, specific interaction get together with them for specific reasons. Instrumental needs co-workers at work are there for a purpose to get a certain job done: shorter duration, reference group - groups we use as a standard of evaluation. We look at them to see how we measure up. We can also use them for negative evaluation. Sometimes you say well i"m not the best person, but at least i"m not like them over there . There are cases when we can use our own references, but more often they involve groups we don"t belong to.
