1. Groups and Organizations
How do groups influence you?

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. What are your in-groups and out-groups?

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

9. 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

10. 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?

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

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

13. 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)

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

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

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

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

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