Groups and organizations

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¿What is a group? Are two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity. You should know that not all collections of individuals are social groups.

*Categories: People whith a status in common: teachers, soldiers.

*Crowd: People who are together, but they  interact very little or not at all.

GROUPS:

• Primary Groups:
  -Characteristics: Small, personal, relationships and long lasting.
  -Security relationships. 
  -Assistance of all kinds: Emotional to financial.
  
• Secondary Groups:
  -Characteristics: Large, impersonal and short term.
  -Weak emotional ties between persons.-Members pursue a specific interest or activity.-Networking and career goals.
  
• In-groups:-Social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty.
  
• Out-groups:
  
• -Social group toward which a person feels a sense of  competition or opposition.


• Reference Groups:
  -Groups act as a reference point from which to evaluate oneself.
  
• Group Size:-The size influences how the members interact.-As a group's membership is added, the number of possible relationships increases.
  -DYAD: (2 members) Very intimate and a intensive relationship.
  -TRYAD: (3 members)  Less intimates and more types of interaction are possible.
  
• Social Networks:
  -People identify and interact little with one another.
  
• -Little sense of membership.
• -Occasional contact.
   
• Electronic Communities:
  -People who share their interest in blogs, messages, etc. All of them "
• self-subscribing."

ORGANIZATIONS:

• Formal organizations:  Large secondary groups organized to achieve their goals. (Types: utilitarian, normative or coercive)
  Corporations
  Government 
  Agencies
  
  
• Utilitarian Organizations: It is conformed by people who is payed for their efforts.
  Becoming part of it is a matter of individual choice.
  Business
  Government agencies
  School system
• Normative Organizations: They are voluntary associations: People join to pursue some goals "morally worthwhile".
  Community service groups.
  Political parties.
  Religious organizations.
• Coercive Organizations: They are people forced to join, It is a involuntary membership.
  Usually they are person from the prison or psychiatric hospital, with security precautions like:
  Locked doors, barred windows and the supervision of security personnel.

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