SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: News, Mcdonaldization, Oligarchy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Two or more people who identify and interact with one another. Non-groups: category: those with a status in common, such as ethnicity or occupation, crowd: non-interacting group, such as an audience. But, a common experience could turn a non-group into a group. A small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships. Cooley called this type of group primary because they: are the first groups we experience, shape attitudes, behaviour, and identity, provide economic and other assistance, are bound by emotion and loyalty. Large and impersonal groups whose members pursue a specific goal or activity. Characteristics: weak emotional ties, little personal knowledge of each other, people look to one another strategically (for what they can do for one another, part of a secondary group could turn itself into a primary group. Small circles of friends may have no leader at all. However large secondary groups place leaders in a formal chain of command.