Sherwood Soc Exam 2
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- a collection of people who interact with one another and have a feeling of unity
- social group
- just a number of people who happen to be in one place but don\'t interact. ex. street or audience
- social aggregate
- a number of people who have something in common but who neither interact with one another nor gather in one place
- social category
- who experimented with boys in cabins becoming parts of groups?
- Muzafer Sherif
- group to which an individual is a strongly tied member
- in-group
- group of which an individual is not a strongly tied member
- out-group
- what are some cohesive in-group characteristics?
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1. members use symbols like names, slogans or badges to identify themselves
2. view themselves with positive stereotypes and other groups with negative stereotypes
3. inclined to compete or clash with the out-group - a group that is used as the frame of reference for evaluating one\'s behavior
- reference group
- imitation of the reference group as in your parents having high self esteem, therefore you would have self esteem
- normative effect
- those who achieve their groups goal by getting others to focus on task performance.
- instrumental leaders aka autocratic leaders
- achieve group harmony by making others feel good
- expressive leaders aka democratic leaders
- lets others work more or less on their own
- laissez-faire (French meaning \'let do\')
- What is George Simmel\'s term for two in a group and it being a very personal group
- diatic
- what is George Simmel\'s term for a group of three, being less personal than a group of two
- a triad
- the privilege that allows leaders to deviate from their groups\' norms or their society\'s norms
- idiosyncrasy credit
- Who experimented with one test subject and multiple actors who guess obviously wrong at the longest line to see if the subject conforms
- Solomn Asch
- the tendency for members of a cohesive group to maintain a consencus to the extent of ignoring the truth
- groupthink
- webs of social relationships that link individuals or groups to one another. (college, workplace, peers, religions)
- social networks
- money and service given by family or friends to help us cope with problems
- instrumental support
- groups whose activities are rationally designed to achieve specific goals
- formal organizations
- who came up with the idea of higher participants (administrators) and lower participants (the rank and file)
- Amitai Etzioni
- what are Amitai Etzioni\'s three kinds of power available to higher partipants
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1. coercive power
2. remunerative power
3. normative power - what is the use of physical force from higher participants to lower participants
- coercive power
- what is the use of material rewards/incentives to ensure cooperation bet. higher and lower participants
- remunerative power
- what is the use of moral persuasion from high participants to lower participants
- normative power
- what are three kinds of involvement by lower participants
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1. alienative
2. calculative
3. moral - what is the type of lower participant involvement in which they don\'t support the organization\'s rules
- alienative
- what is the kind of lower partipant involvement in which they are moderately supportive
- calculative
- what is the kind of lower partipant involvement in which they strongly support the organization
- moral