Groups and Social Structures Unit

Group Unit completion chart.docx

Big question:  What influence does a Social group have on everyday life? 

 

Use for notes Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vb6AmFAwqJqwQnJbSn8PWX2tdADZrr9IBk51P15xXlc/edit?usp=sharing 

 

 

Unit Objectives

1. identify how we interact in groups.

2. Analyze issues that occur because of social interactions in groups.

 

 

When unit is over can you...?

3 formative assignments

1. understand what influence groups have on you and other individuals

2. understand how leadership has different styles and influences

3. understand what a group is and the make up of its dynamics.

 

How does group behavior influence individual behavior? 

Activity 1  

Introduction to groups- follow along and answer the questions through out activity 1.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oowRUws4HLSlOLU9sAarp6tkWbA4-StHlmWYhsdVb1o/edit?usp=sharing These are the introduction questions.   

What do you know about groups and their structure? How do they influence your everyday lives? Write what you know on the Google form below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4Zr7P25o0 4:25 In group and out group formation

What is a social group? There are many ways to define them.

Definition

Social Groups Institutions are made up of social groups. A social group is defined as two or more people who have a common identity, interact, and form a social relationship. For example, the family in which you were reared is a social group that is part of the family institution. The religious association to which you may belong is a social group that is part of the religious institution. 

Social groups may be categorized as primary or secondary. Primary groups, which tend to involve small numbers of individuals, are characterized by intimate and informal interaction. Families and friends are examples of primary groups. Secondary groups, which may involve small or large numbers of individuals, are task-oriented and characterized by impersonal and formal interaction. Examples of secondary groups include employers and their employees and clerks and their customers. 

What is a social group?

What is the difference between a primary and a secondary group?

Can you identify one primary and one secondary group you belong to?

 

Types of Social Groups:

Formal vs informal groups. Coercive groups.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/formal-organization-structure-utilitarian-normative-coercive.html 3:30 video

What is the difference between an informal or a formal group?

What is a coercive group?

Can you identify how you belong to any of these groups?

 

 

Types of groups and group dynamics- lets look at these

Each has a different function and structure.

Each exerts a large amount of social pressure on individuals, some obvious and some subtle.

Each is influenced by leadership.

 

Group dynamics like cooperation, conflict, accommodation, exchange, and competition can work for or against a group.

 

Types of groups by acceptance- Peer group, reference group, in group, out group, primary group, secondary group, self help group

• A group is said to be in a state of cohesion when its members possess bonds linking them to one another and to the group as a whole.
• An intimate community is one in which some members recognize and are recognized by all of the others, and most of the members recognize and are recognized by many of the others. Relationships in intimate communities tend to be more stable and the groups more cohesive.

 

 

 

 

 

Activity 2  How does group behavior influence individual behavior? How does it influence other group behavior? Can be positive or negative reasons.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dYfu_eGQch3pc_WKKl6UekFbwRwAgCQyPAVoLDrovqA/edit?usp=sharing Activity on Group Dynamics. Choose a group and analyze its dynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3jJrk685Rc 3:23 Song and group examples

 Psychological Projection Theory

 is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.

 For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.

 According to some research, the projection of one's unconscious qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life.

Elevator Activity https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yXKPE4XFoXvCxRpkIRvu6JjGEE-5wuIBwbozZ-DmlYc/edit?usp=sharing How does group behavior influence the individual?

 

Sherif Experiments (2)- How does a group influence the individual's behavior?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16KYzV9pPQh1q_-rv6dVxSmwkvwXzhWxq14g70zvXrhU/edit?usp=sharing Readings and questions on the 2 experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

Activity 3                   Group behavior

Why are some groups stronger than others? What factors influence groups?

Status, role, and rank, in social groups- what are they?

Simple Definition of status:

• : the position or rank of someone or something when compared to others in a society, organization, group, etc.

• : high position or rank in society

• : the official position of a person or thing according to the law

Simple definition of role:

• a socially expected behavior pattern usually determined by an individual's status in a particular society 

Read, watch the video, and answer the following questions on group intimacy

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFZ5Dbj8DA 10;15 Crash course on groups

 

Watch video and do the questions below on the DOC

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A6Z3eLHUIyqNdc0UdUnLJ0q5gwKp-cGVrfzNyvYhJ_I/edit?usp=sharing 

 

How are the items below important to status and group structure?

Big question:  What influence does a group and it's structure have on your everyday life?

Can you list symbols that go with other status? Share your thoughts on status

Upper class

 

Middle Class?? 

 

Lower class??

 

Theoretical Perspectives

Interactionists

Functionalist

Conflict

Which explains how an individual conforms to a group?

 

 

Royals- What can we learn from this song and its view on Groups? status? Rank? Types of groups? Social structure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0SQxIC0utQ  3:08   Royals by Lorde

 

Discuss organizer with class on social groups

Exit activity- What did you learn about social groups and their structure?

Quick write a paragraph 

 

 

 

 

                                            A groups structure

Like a well designed and engineered building a groups structure depends on its makeup.

 

 Big question:  What influence does a Social group have on everyday life? 

Unit Objectives

1. identify how we interact in groups.

2. Analyze issues that occur because of social interactions in groups.

 

Why are some groups stronger than others? What factors influence groups?

Group definition: Two or more people, who share a similar way of life, and have a common identity between them.  

Which is not a group and why? People at a concert, people waiting for a bus, panther cheering section, people at the scene of an accident.

Peer group, reference group, in group, out group, primary group, secondary group, self help group

http://study.com/academy/lesson/social-groups-dyad-and-triad-in-groups-and-out-groups.html  3:30 video on diad and triad

Is it easier or harder for a group of two (diad) or a group of three (triad) to make a decision. Why?

 

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/defines-family-children-americans-survey/story?id=11644693 3:24  What makes a family group?

Statement: Social structures of groups are like buildings. They have foundations, bricks, beams, ceilings, walls, and floors. The structure creates and defines the buildings shape. Unlike buildings, groups are dynamic or ever changing. Demonstrate the structure of a group you belong to and how it is like a building. 

 

 

 

 

Activity 4          5 social Institutions and your Master Status

Big question:  What influence does a Social group have on everyday life?

       

Master Status: What identity influences you the most on a daily basis in groups?

Definition of Master Status- Status that plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life and identity in a group.

soldierscreed.pdf How is this a master status?

 

Role Conflicts- A situation in which a person is expected to play two incompatible roles. For example, a boss will suffer role conflict if forced to fire an employee who is also a close friend.

When you are expected to do two or more roles at the same time.

 

Role Strain- is experienced within one particular role. Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty meeting the responsibilities of a particular role in his or her life.

 

Guiding questions: 

What are the 5 institutions? How do people see a status (Master) in those institutions?

What types of social interactions happen in those institutions?- Every group has these interactions- exchange, competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoZaEvzURDQ Video on master status and groups  15:00. Watch on your own.

http://wn.com/master_status 5:45 Master Status. Teacher in Public

The daily routine- Which is your Master status? Below fill out the area that best fits your master status from the institution to the interactions with others.

1. Education- Master status, role, values, norms, social interactions?

2. Economic- Master status, role, values, norms, social interactions?

3. Religion- Master status, role, values, norms, social interactions?

4. Government-Master status, role, values, norms, social interactions?

5. Family-Master status, role, values, norms, social interactions?

education	master status?	a role or roles	values	norm	social interaction with  others
economic	master status?	a role or roles	values	norm	social interaction with others
religion	master status?	a role or roles	values	norm	social interaction with others
government	master status?	a role or roles	values	norm	social interaction with others
family	master status?	a role or roles	values	norm	social interaction with others

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zJo6XZNdH_EkAuhM24xMRd0ScycDJNUvj8Y9Ki8QJq0/edit?usp=sharing master status chart.

What did you learn? Can you identify your own master status?

Complete the Google slide below on your master status

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KOXkRjY8Z9HznHc7ULtgXsFyOl2x8EgiCn_wRSGwrGc/edit?usp=sharing 

 

Exit: Predict changes in the next 20 years that will effect your institutions and your master status. 

 

Quick activity-

Summary Poem Activity

Statement- Master Status has an influence on you on a daily basis?

-Write on the statement above about master status..

- List 10 key words from the assigned text, questions, and organizer.

- Do a free verse poem with the words you chose.

- Write a summary of the reading based on these words.

Recite for class and partner

 

Activity 5                                  Leadership  

Unit question:  What influence does a group have on your everyday life?

 Every group has these interactions- exchange, competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation.

Leadership can be strong or weak, instrumental or expressive.

• Instrumental (task) leaders work to maintain productivity and ensure that tasks are completed. They make good managers because they get the job done.
  
• Expressive (Maintenance) leaders are concerned with process and with ensuring everyone's emotional well-being”

Toxic leadership is a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance. This leader lacks concern for others and the climate of the organization, which leads to short- and long-term negative effects.

 

 

Leadership Vocabulary: Leadership can be strong or weak, instrumental or expressive. 

Types of Leaders - Task and Maintenance 

Leadership styles - Authoritarian, Democratic, Lassaiz-faire

 

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfRKu05bkQ 6:15 video on leadership styles 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgmKNKM0i1g 10:30 what makes a great leader?

3. https://educateinspirechange.org/health/18-behaviors-emotionally-intelligent-people/ 18 qualities of emotionally intelligent people

 

4. http://smallbizclub.com/leadership/people-skills/which-leadership-styles-are-most-effective/ What are the most effective leadership styles?

 

5. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBv0UCHBoIfan7Sbp22aILk-wGA0O74412NV3Udsujc/edit?usp=sharing  Do this Google DOC on Leadership Styles

 Share your article and what you learned about leaders with others after we are done reading.

Give examples of the leaders and of what leadership styles they possess.

 

Exit: Which type of leadership is the best for qualities of president of the U.S.? President/CEO of a business? Class president?

Do the qualities you look for in a leader change?

Share the qualities you see as must haves for leaders?.......

 

Activity 6        How do people lead? What influence does a leader have on the individual?

Big question:  What influence does a group and it's structure have on your everyday life?

Objective:

Evaluate how leadership styles have many facets and influences the outcome of production with people differently.

Directions:

 

1. Guiding question: Can a leader influence individuals to go against their personal roles, values, and norms? Positively or negatively. Discuss to open class in a small group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDuBh7VbGgU 10:00 Crash Course Formal organizations 

2. Go to a slide on google presentation and present one of the leaders below and their leadership over others.

-Charles Manson  -Winston Churchhill   -Marshall Applewhite  -Jim Jones  -Franklin Roosevelt  -David Koresh

-Josef Stalin  - Mao Zedong   - Vince Lombardi   -Adolf Hitler   -Steve Jobs  -Donald Trump   - Hillary Clinton  -Barack Obama

*Can pick other leaders, just run it by me first

Google presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18C_M9Wk1iii3AKKo0pZRnQo6gGpWNC_E4uiOCsBe9Is/edit?usp=sharing 

 

3. Research the following leaders and their leadership type and style. Analyze what they do well as a leader. 

Make statements about the leadership characteristics that each had to influence members of their group.

 

4.  Comment on any or all of the 5 aspects of social interaction of exchange, competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation that the leader uses for the followers.

Terms- Organizational leadership (influence of group in pursuit of goals), Effective leadership (judged on leader, follower, situation)

 

 

http://www.elistmania.com/juice/10_most_notorious_leaders_in_history/  10 most notorious leaders in History. Killed millions.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Carraro/notorious  Quiz on the most Notoriuos leaders ever. Play for fun.

Exit: What influence can a leader have on an individual, group, or nation?

 

 

Activity 7              S.O.S Summary                Topic-Group influences on individuals.

Objectives

1. Identify how humans are social beings who interact in predictable ways in groups.

2. List different types of groups and identify the different components and social interactions that occur in groups.

 

 Question: Can a group and leader change an individual's behavior? What are some reasons that explain a group's influence in changing behavior of the individual from the readings below?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3vcSab13Sk 3:07 video on a flat earth society. Because we have a group and a society does it make it true?

Directions:

1. Listen to the question above

2. Watch video above

3. Discuss group dysfunction 

4. Open up the S.O.S. document and begin reading and searching to Support your comment. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGfR1QE--CZJlmzibdT_3O6gQ8uy-hx8zKcU0CtLsGY/edit?usp=sharing SOS document

5. Share your learning about the two questions

groups Speaking Up Is Hard to Do Researchers Explain Why.pdf Printfriendly version "Are we less intelligent in a group?"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577207020525853492.html Are we less intelligent in a group? original version.

What do the theoretical perspectives say about groups?

Functionalist- Consensus produces stability.

Conflict- promotes competition and change leading to power and control which is limited.

Interactionist- focus on society in general and especially groups and how individuals attach meanings to actions in those groups.

 

Exit: What label or big word do you think best describes a groups influence?

 

 Activity 8      Discussion Web         Choosing the Right Pond         How important is status?

Objective: Do we behave differently because of status? How does it influence individuals with a lower or higher status?

Low status Compensation theory- Violence tends to come from lower status. Agree or not?

 

 

Guiding Question: Do you become angry or frustrated when someone cares more about their status than anything else? 

Intro: What would a lack of status look like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmgxPLLLyVo 4:02  No by BTS on status, status symbols, rank. 

How did this video represent status among other group topics? Use your Sociological imagination.

 

Statement:  From the book, "Choosing the Right Pond", status is important to us?

Look at book overview below

Is it better to be a big frog in a small pond or a small frog in a big pond? Here, economist Robert H. Frank argues that concerns about status permeate and profoundly alter a broad range of human behavior. He shows how status considerations affect the salaries people earn, the way they spend them, and even many of the laws, regulations, and cultural norms they adopt. Provocative and insightful, this book is sure to spark widespread and lively debate in classrooms and boardrooms alike.

Directions:

1. Open discussion web link.

Discussion question: Is status important to you? reasons why yes, reasons why no. What is your conclusion?

group ponds Discussion Web.docx DO this discussion web on "is status important to us?"

http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=homepage&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fthe-psychology-of-social%2F Article on status

2. In the left column you are going to jot down notes on the strongest arguments for why we do not have a need for status. Rather than view all the information as equal, jot down information that is significantly more important in the left column.

3. In the right column, the reasons why we think status is important.

-----Find a group that best fits your view of status (your pond). Decide the least you would accept and go one up or one down from there.

Categories are car, jewelry, housing, clothing, food, technology, entertainment.

-----Go through the discussion web with your pond..

Group 1 Porsche, rolex, penthouse, tuxedo, caviar, I phone galaxy s plus, luxury suite

Group 2 BMW, Seiko, gated, suit, lamb, smart phone, season box

Group 3 Cadillac, Timex, on the hill, polo, steak and lobster, smart phone, season outdoors,

Group 4 Newer Chevy, Armitron, edge of town, Kohl's clothes, ground sirloin, flip phone, scalp one or two games.

Group 5 Older Chevy, no watch, in town, Walmart, hamburger, Trac Fone, go every now and then. 

Group 6 Don't need a car, don't need a watch, rent, Goodwill, fast food, don't need a phone, not important to ever go.

4. Reading on book Choosing the Right Pond and why status matters..

http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/granovet_articles/frank_pond.html  Book link "Ponds"

                               Ponds - Only so many Resources, Cash, Status, and Production. We compete for it.

- Hard to measure individual results but easy to see the team results

- Individual performance do you want to be best on worst team or worst on best team?

  Three Ponds            Above avg.           Avg.               Below avg.       Which do you choose? Which do your parents want you to choose? Which does society want you to choose? Spouse? Issues here to discuss?

5. What is your final conclusion about status? Put final conclusion on web.

6. Use specific references from book to support it.

Exit: How important is status? How important is status to you? Predict if the importance of status will change for you and others in the future? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2933vMylY 3:23 Pool boy, can you recognize the status in the skit?

 

 Activity 9           Dying to get in                              Getting into a Group

 

Big question: Can getting into a group kill you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTltDzqhzM Incognito version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8T2ol_Fmc0  6:30 Saturday night live "the Group Hopper"

What could go wrong?

Directions:

1. Open the link

2. Go over words below and identify

3. Read the articles and take notes on how dangerous trying to get into a group can be.

4. Answer the questions on group influence on individuals.

 

"In" group--------Hazing-------- Initiation Rites--------Bullying----------Acceptance-------Rejection---------

Boundaries (territorial or symbolic)

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xq9WRNBwfIkhh-t9Ewb3wnZ9BQnSQvpJVG1nz_kdcX8/edit?usp=sharing do these questions with links attached.

 

 

Exit: Can you identify current events or incidents in your own life where you saw the danger of a group?

 

 

Activity 10                    Oral reading                  Getting inside a group

Objective:

List different types of groups and identify the different components and social interactions that occur in groups.

Vocabulary to know

Peer group, reference group, in group, primary group, out group,  initiation rite, boundaries, territory, symbols.

 

Big Question: How does an outsider get accepted into a group?

http://listverse.com/2009/12/28/10-bizarre-rites-of-passage/  10 of the most bizarre initiations to get in.

Intro to reading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpK1TDfs5gM "Once Were Warriors" Gang initiation 3:05 min. Can you observe the groups social structure in this video? Status? Role? Rites? Symbolism 

Directions:

1.  Open a word document and identify the terms about groups above.

2.  I will read a selection from the book"Down These Mean Streets"  By Piri Thomas out loud in class. Page 123 in old text book.

group initiation reading DOC042517.pdf

https://docs.google.com/document/d/106rj72ZG6Er35R3DJojokLiYLko3RMRbh7u4_WkEYtI/edit?usp=sharing   do this organizer during the reading, video.

3. In a word document as I am reading,  Identify the examples given in the passage that identify the terms listed above about groups.

4. What other examples can you come up with about getting "in". Share how Piri got "in" and how you have struggled or watched someone struggle to get "in."

5. Share with the class.

 

 

Exit:  Identify many of the components of a group and how they apply to a gang member trying to get in ? 

 

 

 

When unit is over can you...?

3 formative assignments

1. understand what influence groups has on you and other individuals

2. understand how leadership has different styles and influences

3. understand what a group is and the make up of its dynamics.

 

 

 

Final Assessment on Groups-Asch Conformity Test

 

What is the Asch conformity test?

DOC below has test questions and final questions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qpVjjCSmkcCC_y5C6QlX5T64zImrKKnoGpFKmOtccy8/edit?usp=sharing  

 

 

What will we be Doing?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xS-yJFMsJwx4Ihr-3cjl4b6wgKMFZEO1XKjrdMS4eHM/edit?usp=sharing 

Lines to tell truth on: 1,2,5,8,11

Lines to lie on: 3,4,6,7,9,10,12

Asch conformity lines.pdf here are the 12 lengths of line.

Group Effect Experiments.docx 2 more group influence on individual experiments

 

Speaking Up Is Hard to Do: Researchers Explain Why
By E. Bernstein; http://www.wsj.com; 2/7/12

Robert Murphy, a web advertising exec in San Francisco, was in a conference with his supervisor and six associates a couple of weeks prior. He had gone to past gatherings on the subject, and he arranged with extra research. He brought a thick bundle of notes and contracts with him to the meeting room. So what did he add to the talk? Literally nothing. "I just sat there like a lump, focused on the way that I was calm," says Mr. Murphy, 31 years of age. Have you ever shut up at a gathering or got yourself tongue-tied at a meeting inspired by a paranoid fear of saying something idiotic—despite the fact that you view yourself as at any rate as keen as any other individual in the room? Research from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute offers a clarification of why numerous individuals get to be, as a result, less astute in little gathering settings. In the event that we think others in a gathering are more quick witted, we might get to be more idiotic, incidentally losing both our critical thinking capacity and what the scientists call our "appearance of IQ." The clamming-up wonder is by all accounts more normal in ladies and in individuals with higher IQs, as indicated by the report, distributed in January in the diary Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The Virginia Tech researchers utilized practical attractive reverberation imaging (fMRI) to concentrate how the mind forms data about social status in a little gathering and how individuals' impression of their status influences their intellectual execution. The scientists controlled a standard insight test to 70 people and isolated them into 14 gatherings of five. At that point the gatherings rehashed 92 test questions managing arrangements and spatial issues. Two subjects from every gathering addressed the inquiries while having fMRI examines. After every inquiry, the subjects perceived how they positioned inside the gathering and whether their positioning went up, down or continued through to the end in respect to the gathering. At first, all the mind examines demonstrated spikes in action in the amygdala, the part of the cerebrum that registers apprehension and procedures feeling. In any case, in the wake of noting 10 or so addresses, 13 subjects recuperated and wound up with scores that were closer to their introductory execution. In the interim, 14 didn't recoup. As they saw their rankings go down, they appeared to frenzy, and they addressed more inquiries mistakenly. (One checked individual didn't complete the inquiries as was avoided.) "It was similar to the "Survivor" says Read Montague, pioneer of the study, chief of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and teacher of neuroscience at University College London. "A few individuals stayed worried and cracked the entire time, and a few individuals habituated generally rapidly and began unraveling little issues," Dr. Montague said. The specialists reported that 11 of the 14 "low entertainers" were female; 10 of the 13 "superior workers" were men. The low-entertainers were more sensitive to gathering social flow, subliminally stressing over their execution and assessing themselves in connection to others, the analysts hypothesize. Ladies regularly are more mindful to what others might be feeling or considering, an affectability that probable has a transformative source, Dr. Montague says. "For the gathering to give you any additional security or insurance, you must be delicate to how the gathering was doing." Alissa Fox, a dermatologist from Flemington, N.J., says gatherings with different specialists aren't an issue, yet she is here and there struck noiseless at neighborhood grills and philanthropy board gatherings. "You get your prompts immediately," says Dr. Fox, 57. "I will make remarks about things, however it appears that nobody hears me or nobody concurs with me. And afterward I hush." Two essential variables impact how we act in a gathering: identity and position, says Michael Woodward, a hierarchical clinician in New York and creator of "The You Plan: A Five-Step Guide to Taking Charge of Your Career in the New Economy." On the off chance that you are tranquil in a gathering setting, it doesn't as a matter of course mean you are timid, yet it means you may be a contemplative person. Self observers want to gather their musings before talking and can be overpowered in a gathering, particularly of extraverts, who have a tendency to "verbally process" and process data by talking. Be that as it may, extraverts additionally might gag in gathering settings. Mr. Murphy, the web advertising agent, says he is normally certain and garrulous in a gathering circumstance. "On the off chance that I am agreeable in a setting, I can't get my mouth to quiets down," he says. That can change if the supervisor is available or he feels others are more effective. He felt flummoxed at supper with his wife and her master's level college companions. In these circumstances, he says he begins to "overthink." And then his cerebrum close down like a solidified PC. "Contemplating what I am not saying takes up all the space in my psyche that I could use to think about what to say," Mr. Murphy says.