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NOTE: To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. Definition of a social group: A number of individuals who relate t0 and interact with each other, which results in a growing sense of unity and belonging.

Emile Durkheim: Mechanic and Organic Solidarity NOTE: To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. Emile Durkheim: Mechanic and Organic Solidarity

Ferdinand Tönnies Gemeinschaft Gesellschaft Community Intimate, private, exclusive, long- lasting Even if you are not with the group at the time, you are still a part of it Ex: family, marriage, religion Society Public, function as individuals, temporary When you leave the organization, you break all ties Ex: work place

Charles H. Cooley Ellsworth Farris Primary Social Groups Secondary Social Groups Close, intimate Shared goals Ex: Family, childhood friends Critiqued Cooley Formal, public, organized Ex: political parties

W.G. Sumner In-Group Out-group The group you belong to Friends, cooperative, peace “We, us” Feel sympathetic with your in- group The people who are not a part of your group Could feel hatred, hostility “They, them” Occurs in simple societies and could lead to ethnocentrism