Prolonging the Agony Part 2

This refers to any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share a sense that their identity is somehow aligned with the group

• Group

• Social Group

• Primary Group

• Secondary Group

This refers to a collection of people who interact with each other and share similar characteristics and a sense of unity.

• Group

• Social Group

• Primary Group

• Secondary Group

This is marked by a concern for one another, shared activities and culture, and long periods of time spent together. They are psychologically comforting and quite influential in developing personal identity..

• Group

• Social Group

• Primary Group

• Secondary Group

This involves weak emotional ties and little personal knowledge of one another. In contrast to primary groups, secondary groups don’t have the goal of maintaining and developing the relationships themselves.

• Group

• Social Group

• Primary Group

• Secondary Group

This refers to a collection of people who do not interact but who share similar characteristics. A social category can become a social group when the members in the category interact with each other and identify themselves as members of the group. 

• Category

• Aggregate

This refers a collection of people who are in the same place, but who do not interact or share characteristics.

• Category

• Aggregate

It is any behavior intended to harm another person because he or she is a

member of an out-group, the behavior being viewed by its targets as

undesirable.

• INTERGROUP AGGRESSION

• IN-GROUP BIAS

• IN-GROUP FAVORITISM

It refers to a preference and affinity for one’s in-group over the out-group, or

anyone viewed as outside the in-group.

• INTERGROUP AGGRESSION

• IN-GROUP BIAS

• IN-GROUP FAVORITISM

It refers to a preference and affinity for one’s in-group over the out-group, or

anyone viewed as outside the in-group. This can be expressed in evaluation

of others, linking, allocation of resources and many other ways.

• INTERGROUP AGGRESSION

• IN-GROUP BIAS

• IN-GROUP FAVORITISM

A person joins as a representative or a number of people

elected rather by them or nominated by some authority.

• Voluntary

• Involuntary

• Kinship

• Delegate