GROUPS

1. GROUPS KEY THEMES FROM TEXT

2. Group life: • Psychological and physical health • Solitary confinement, shunning are severe punishments

3. Basic Terms • Expressive vs. instrumental ties • Primary group vs. secondary group (or primary ties vs. secondary ties)

4. Primary groups: • Socialization • Social needs met (companionship, love, security, well being) • Instruments of social control (shunning)

5. In-groups vs. Out-groups • In-group: provides us with social identity • Outsiders prevented from entering the social sphere of the in-group • Minimal group paradigm

6. Reference Group • Not necessarily the “membership” group • Reference group provides both normative and comparative functions (take on group values, use group standards to appraise ourselves)

7. Relative deprivation • When membership group does not match reference group • Sometimes motive for change

8. Group size Dyads vs triads

9. Small Groups Task specialist (instrumental leader) vs. social-emotional specialist (expressive leader)

10. Managerial Styles • 1. Authoritarian style • 2. Democratic style • 3. Laissez-faire style

11. Social loafing • Less work gets done in group than when alone

12. Social Dilemmas • Collective vs individual goals

13. Group think and conformity