SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 5
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Mutually dependent; if one member leaves, the group ends: triad: group of three or more. More stable and stay together longer, but at the cost of less intimacy. When a third person joins: possible roles: Tertius gaudens: one who pro ts from disagreement with the others. Divide et impera: one who purposefully breaks up the others: simel"s approach. Small group: single focus, informal, equality, face to face. Party: same as small, but multifocal. Cooley: primary group: intimate, face to face, strong in uence, secondary group: impersonal, exist as a means to an end. In group/out group: useful in describing groups with power inequality. Reference groups: a group useful for competition, looking at others to gauge our own behaviors, can be positive(look towards them, try to be like them) or negative (dont be like them) Embeddedness: refers to the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths, strength of weak ties: weak ties are valuable; rep ties to new information.
