Groups and Organizations How do groups influence you?

What types of groups are there? Primary Secondary Reference In-group Out-group

What are your primary groups? Small, personal, intimate The family First groups in our lives Primary importance in our lives Socialization Social identity Provides comfort and security An end in itself

What are your secondary groups? E.g. Microsoft Large, impersonal, formal Weak emotional ties Short duration Lawsuits increase with increasing secondary ties A means to an end

What are your reference groups? Point of reference in making evaluations and decisions Family Friends Gang Professors

What are your in-groups and out-groups?

Your in-groups In-groups The group you are in Family Friends Clubs

Your out-groups The groups you are out of. A social group toward which we feel competition or opposition Lead to unfairly negative views of out-groups

Do you remember? What types of groups are there? What characterizes each type of group? Can you be in several types of groups at once?

What group leadership styles are there? Instrumental Completing tasks Emotionally distant Expressive Collective well-being Emotionally involved

What group decision making styles are there? Authoritarian Democratic Collective decisions on egalitarian basis Laissez-faire Downplays position of power

What kinds of formal organizations are there? Normative organizations Voluntary organizations Red Cross PTA (Parent Teacher Association) Coercive organizations Involuntary commitment Maximum security prison or mental hospital Utilitarian organization Company - Material benefits (money)

Do you remember? What group leadership styles are there? What group decision making styles are there? What kinds of formal organizations are there?

Will you conform in a group? Solomon Asch Experiment Milgram’s experiment

What did the Solomon Asch experiment tell us? Comparison of lines People will compromise their own judgment to avoid being seen as different

What did the Milgram experiment tell us? People follow both legitimate authority and ordinary individuals

Do you remember? What did the Solomon ash experiment tell us? What did the Milgram experiment tell us?