SOCIOL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: George Ritzer, Georg Simmel, Summer Camp
7 Apr 2017
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Group: any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share some sense of aligned identity. People in line at starbucks or people at a rally are not groups. Groups can exist within categories, like teachers make up unions and/or pta. Aggregate: a collection of people who exist in the same place at the same time, but who don"t interact or share a sense of identity. Category: people who share similar characteristics but who are not connected in any way. They don"t frequently interact with each other, though they can become a group. Cooley thought that groups could be divided up into 2 categories. 1) primary group: small, informal groups of people who are closest. Said primary groups are more critical to our lives. Expressive functions: a group function that serves an. 2) secondary group: larger and more impersonal groups that are. Serve instrumental function: being oriented toward a task or.
