What makes up
society?
•Groups
•Can be as small as 2 people
•Can be as large as a nation
What makes a (social) group?
•4 things make a group
•2 or more people
•Interaction among members
•Members have shared
expectations
•Members must share a common
identity
Aggregate
•Same as a group, BUT
•Lack organization
•Do not plan interaction
•Can be considered a social category
•way of classifying people according to a
shared trait or status
Size of Groups
•Dyad
•2 people who share power in group
•If 1 person leaves, group does not
exist anymore
•Triad
•3 people who share power in group
•More definite than 2 person group
How big can a small group be?
•Smallenough where
each individual can
talk to each other face
to face.
•Bigif they share an
identity
TYPES OF SOCIAL GROUPS
GEMEINSCHAFT
Close communal
relationships/community
•Example: tribal groups,
agricultural and fishing
villages
•rural neighborhoods,
families, tribes, garage
bands, sports teams
.
GESELLSCHAFT
•organized impersonal
relationships/
society
•Example:
urban-industrial
communities
(corporations, diverse
countries, social clubs,
universities.)
•Groups within Society: Primaryand
Secondary.
Groups
according to
ties
Types of Social Groups
•Primary Groups
•Small groups who interact
over a long period of time
on a direct and personal
basis
•Very intimate
•Very intense
•Examples
•Families
•Couples
Types of Social Groups
•Secondary Group
•Interaction is impersonal
•Interaction is temporary
•Very casual
•Individuals in group can be replaced
•Examples
•Classrooms
•Political party
PRIMARY GROUP SECONDARY GROUP
Intimate, personal&
informal relationships
Impersonal,formal,distant
relationships
Long term, sometimes life
long
Shorttermortemporary
We develop our self-identity
or who we are
Wemeetourlifelong
partnersthroughthese
Family members, close
friends
Work,school,associations,
etc
•Intermediategroup
A cross between
primary and secondary
groups
.
Intermediate group
It is a group that is
large scale yet applies
familial relationship
with members.
How television companies
package their TV stations.
•Intermediate group
Example:
Afamilywheremembers
areseparatedbecauseof
work,residence, and
circumstances.
According to
self-identification
In-Groups and Out-Groups
•In-groups
•A group that a person identifies with
and is part of
•In-groups separate themselves by
using symbols
•Clothing
•Language/slang
•drawings
•Out-group
•A group that a person does not identify
with
1.IN-GROUP
-a socialgroup
to which an individual
feels he/shebelongs
2.OUT-GROUP
-a social group
that an individualdoes
not identifywith
REFERENCE
GROUPS
-a socialgroup
to which an individual
comparehim/herself
REFERENCEGROUPS
Is a social group that we are use
as a standard of comparison for
ourselves regardless of whether
or not we are part of thatgroup.
NETWORKS
-a theoretical
construct useful in
the social sciences to
study relationships
between individuals,
groups,
organizations, or
even the entire
societies
NETWORKS
A social network is a series or web
ofweak social ties involving
people or groups of individuals
connected to each other, such as
through friendship, family,
business relationship, academic
institutions, religious
organizations and socio-political
clubs.
Social Networks
•Web of relationships that is formed by the
sum of a person’s interactions with other
people
•Have no clear boundaries
•Have no rules
•Have no sense of identity for the most part
Kinship by
blood
1. Consanguineal kinship
This relationships
achieved by birth
or blood affinity.
2. Descent
•biological
relationship
between parents
and offspring.
the line where one’s
descent is traced.
3. Lineage
tracing the affiliation of a
person through descent
of only one sex,
4.Unilineal
Descent
GROUPS:
CLANS:
A link by kin with members
tracing connection through one
another even if the supposedly
ancestral union is not clear .
GROUPS:
LINAGES:
Thetypeoflinkisthrough
common ancestry usingboth
motherandfather’ssideofthe
family.
EXOGAMOUS
The practice of marrying
outside group, class or
social group, which is
very common in modern
societies.
Means of maintaining
boundaries and creates
links.
KINSHIP BY
MARRIAGE
1.AFFINEAL KINSHIP
A. ENDOGAMY
B. EXOGAMY
C. MONOGAMY
D. POLYGAMY
(POLYGYNY & POLYANDRY)
ACTIVITY: TRACE IT
DOWN!!!
Trace the kinship by blood and
marriage of your own family
(PATRILINEAL OR
MATRILINEAL). Give the complete
name/information of each member of
the family.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS:
1.WHAT TYPE OF FAMILY DO YOU
THINK MOST OF THE FILIPINO HAS?
WHY?
2.HOW IMPORTANT IS MARRIAGE TO
YOU?
3.WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF A MARRIED
PERSON?
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS:
4.HOWWOULDYOUCATEGORIZEYOUR
FAMILY?WHY?
5.IFYOUBELONGTOAFAMILYTHAT
HASABADREPUTATION INTHE
PAST,HOWWOULDYOUPROCEEDTO
LIVEBYITINTHEPRESENT?