Groups can depend on satisfaction and security gained from interactions and relations {primary relation} between two people {primary group}|. For people in primary groups, nothing is more important. Primary groups feature non-verbal communication between members. Primary groups are family and cliques.
Children know people of same age and status {peer group}|. After family, next socialization influence is child's playgroup. Peer groups teach obedience to abstract rules, test adult limits, and transmit adult values. For peer-group socialization, people {other-directed person} have social skills, are sensitive to others, control others through anxiety, have pragmatic politics, and have consumption economies.
After peer group, next socialization influence is adolescent group {clique}|. Cliques teach getting along with others, cooperating, being sociable, and conforming.
Secondary groups {secondary group} are geographical communities, cultural communities, associations, movements, and mobs.
Ideological, unified, active, and idealistic groups {social movement} work for goals or ideas, which originate from injustice or inequality.
Unstructured social situations {collective behavior}| involve crowds, riots, protests, revolutions, revivals, fads, rumors, public opinion, social movements, panics, bank runs, crazes, esprit de corps, parties, and ceremonies. People share common mood or emotional state, such as cause, hostility, self-sacrifice, or danger. Collective behavior is emotional, is personal, has shifting loyalties, is power-oriented, and relates to broader-society conflicts and changes. Unstructured social situations feature high stimulation, high suggestibility, low discipline, and anonymity, which encourage unconventional behavior. Collective behavior allows individual decisions that old values do not control.
6-Sociology-Sociological Group-Kinds
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