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Social Groups

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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.

3. Emile Durkheim: Mechanic and Organic Solidarity
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Emile Durkheim: Mechanic and Organic Solidarity

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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