Social groups
Meaning:
A social group is defined by two or more people who interact with one another, share equivalent characteristics and collectively have the spirit of unity.
Characteristics:
- Interaction, such as relationship interaction (social support) and task interaction (action executed by group members).
- Goals, because it’s easier to accomplish a goal as a group by the increasing of focus on a single goal.
- Interdependence, that can be mutual (flowing back and forth between members) or more linear/unilateral.
- Structure, that involves the need of regularities, norms and roles to form a group. If people fail to accomplish their expectations or fulfil their roles, they may not accept the group, or be accepted by other group members.
- Unity, a group is better than the total of its individual parts. A group is never speaked by its individualities, but always by a whole.
Classification:
Primary group- a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships, showing real concern between them. As example, the family is the most important primary group. Lasting friendships are in primary group too.
Secondary group- large groups involving formal relationships involving weak emotional ties and almost none personal knowledge of each other. Most secondary groups are short term.
Intermediate group- complementarity between primary and secondary group, like school.
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