SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 5
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Chapter 5: social groups and formal organizations: groups within society, people who think of themselves as belonging together and interact with one another. Intimate, long term face-to-face interactions: sense of identity and belonging, essential to emotional well-being. Supreme court went to either harvard or yale. In-groups tend to breed loyalty: more likely to excuse faults and encourage others to do better, out-groups breed antagonism, them & us division: leads to discrimination, hatred, and sometimes murder, reference groups, used to evaluate ourselves. It"s the office that is important, not the people who occupy: weber predicted the rationalization of society. Bureaucracies, with their emphasis on results, would increasingly dominate our lives. Increase harmony and minimize # of conflicts: leadership styles, authoritarian: gives orders; dictator, democratic: consensus; president, laissez- faire: highly permissive; laid-back boss, power of peer pressure, the asch experiment, only 25% of people always gave the right answer.
