Fill in the blanks with information regarding your home

province, your favorite things and interests and desired

profession.
1. Province of origin:________________________
2.Favorite sports team: _____________________
3.Favorite tv show:_________________________
4.Favorite food: ___________________________
5.Favorite Music Genre: ____________________
6.Hobbies and Interests: ___________________
7.Desired career track: _____________________
How Society
is Organized
GROUPS
Smaller units
that compose a
society
It is a unit of
interacting
personalities with an
interdependence of
roles and statuses
existing between
members
Importance of Groups (Salcedo 2002)

1. The group is a transmitter of culture.

2. The group is a means of social control.

3. The group socializes the individual.

4. The group is the source of ideas.

5. The group trains the individual in communications.

Social Group - a collection of individuals who have relations with
one another that make them interdependent to some significant
degree.

↘ Interdependence is a necessary condition that exists within

social groups because it is what enables its members to pursue
shared goals or promote common values and principles.)

↘ Our social groups profoundly define our identity, as well as

our roles in society.
 A small, intimate,
1.Primary and less specialized
Group group whose members
engage in face to
face and emotion-
based interactions
over an extended
period of time.
2. Secondary Group
Are larger and less
intimate, and more
specialized groups
where members engage
in an impersonal and
objective- oriented
relationship for a
limited time.
Self Categorization Theory
•a relevant approach in
understanding the
characteristics of
social groups.
•proposes that
people’s appreciation
of their group
membership is
influenced by their
3. In-groups

A group to which
one belongs and
with which one
feels a sense of
identity.
4. Out-groups
A group to which
one does not belong
and to which he or
she may feel a
sense of
competitiveness or
hostility.
5. Reference Group
serves as point of
comparison (or reference)
for an individual in
forming either general or
specific values,
attitudes, or a specific
guide for behavior.
Types of Reference
Groups
 Membership
Symbolic
 Extent of Interaction
Direct versus Indirect
 Nature of Attraction
Aspirational versus
Dissociative
 Degree of Formality
Formal versus informal
 6. Network
Structure of
relationships between
social actors or
groups, larger social
institutions,
expansive, diverse and
overlapping networks
 ACTIVITY (1 whole piece of paper. Copy
and answer.)
TYPE OF
DEFINITION EXAMPLES
GROUP
PRIMARY

SECONDARY

IN-GROUP

OUT-GROUP
REFERENCE
GROUP