Groups {formal group} can try to attain official written goals at minimal cost, through rationality and discipline. Formal groups have subgroups to perform functions. People have one work type. Administration coordinates and makes policy. Bureaucracies have power and authority hierarchies and delegate functions from higher levels to lower levels. Rules and regulations govern roles, work, and pay.
Formal groups {institution} can be structural community parts. Formal group is institution if it is highly formal, is stable, is long term, includes cultural values, and has social composition {base group}. Social groupings make institutions such as family, club, library, museum, town hall, and market. They make classes, cultures, unions, parties, communities, and nations. They can depend on race, gender, or language. They can be about activity or shared feeling.
6-Sociology-Sociological Group-Kinds
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