Social Groups Vocab

Any number of people with similar norms, values and expectations.

• Reference Group

• Secondary Groups

• Social Group

• Norms

Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance

• Folkways

• Mores

• Avoidance

• Primary Groups

Symbols that show membership i.e. wear shirts, logos, mottos, tattoos, names

• In-Group

• Folkways

• Common Identity

• Aspriational

Primary Groups

• Out-Group

• Impersonal groups, larger and of a shorter duration

• Acceptance

• Close family, friends, business partners

A group to which people feel they belong.

• In-Group

• Secondary Group

• Avoidance

• Voluntary

A group to which an individual does not identify with.

• Secondary Group

• Avoidance

• Out-Group

• Family

A group viewed as negative

• Avoidance

• Mores

• Secondary Group

• Out-Group

French for “leave it alone,” the group will take care of itself

• Quítalo sólo

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

• Authoritarian

Leadership that focuses on the completion of tasks

• Instrumental

• Coercive

• Out-Group

• Democratic

Learned behavior shared by a social group for routine or casual interaction

• Norms

• In-Group

• Secondary Group

• Folkways