This document discusses how society is organized into groups. It defines social groups as collections of interdependent individuals who pursue shared goals. Primary groups are small, intimate groups involving face-to-face interaction over long periods of time, while secondary groups are larger and less intimate with more impersonal, objective-focused relationships over shorter times. Self-categorization theory holds that people define their own group membership based on how they perceive non-members of out-groups compared to their in-group. Social groups are important as they transmit culture, exert social control, socialize individuals, generate ideas, and facilitate communication.

1. How Society
is Organized
By: Vielarie Maye Gulla

2. GROUPS
Smaller units
that compose a
society
It is a unit of
interacting
personalities with an
interdependence of
roles and statuses
existing between
members

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Primary
Group
A small, intimate, and less
specialized group whose
members engage in face to
face and emotion-based
interactions over an extended
period of time.

6. 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.

7. 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 perception towards
people who are not members of
their group.

8. A group to which one
belongs and with which
one feels a sense of
identity.In-
groups

9. A group to which one
does not belong and to
which he or she may
feel a sense of
competitiveness or
hostility.
Out-
groups