SO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hillel International, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram
Document Summary
We are social animals who live our entire lives in the company of others. Each of us are born into an emotionally and biologically connected group family. As we mature, we become increasingly interconnected with other people through school, sports, work, and various other social interactions, accumulating friends, teammates, and classmates with whom we interact with on a daily basis. Primary groups: groups characterized by intense emotional ties, intimacy, and identification with membership in the group. Secondary groups: large, impersonal groups with minimal emotional and social ties. Family is the reference group with the greatest impact in shaping our early view of ourselves; as we mature, peers replace/compete. Reference groups may be primary, such as family, or secondary, such as a group of soldiers in the same branch of service in the military. Dyad: group consisting of two persons: offers both intimacy and conflict, likely to be intense and unstable, requires full attention and cooperation of both parties, ex. marriage.
