Social Relations and Groups

Stressful events when moving into college

Loneliness or estrangement: feeling distant or isolated from others to whom we do not connect.

• no friends

• not enough friend

• wrong friends (?)

  

Aloneness: being apart from others to whom we already were connected.

• we have friends, but we can=t see them.

 

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UNITS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

Monads:     self-directed actions can be unfulfilling

Dyads:         opportunities for privacy and intimacy

Triads:         opportunities for coalitions

Networks:    large-scale connectedness

 

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Moving from a dyad into a triad, the third party can

                be supportive

        be mediating

        divide and conquer

   

Networks

Webs of multiple relationships

 

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A 17^th Century prayer goes like that:

 

God bless all those that I love;

God bless all those that love me;

God bless all those that love those that I love;

God bless all those that love those that love me.

 

What does this prayer reflect?

 

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Sociograms

Graphically show the patterns of choice

existing among members of a group

at a given point of time

 

There are two choices possible

·      Unreciprocal choices

·       Reciprocal choices

 

 

A simple diagram that combines  the sociometric relations of

1. an isolate

2. a clique

3. a star

and shows the relation of a mutual pair.

Something for the interested student: How do use methodological tools in drawing a sociogram: CrackPlot

 

GROUPS  

Ingroups and Outgroups

us and them

we-groups them-groups

  

 

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Ethnocentrism:       Own standards are used to judge another (sub-) culture’s standards.  

ó cultural relativism: uses the current cultural standard of a specific culture to judge that culture.

 Group Culture:           culture, subculture and group culture

 

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