CONCEPTS OF
SOCIAL GROUP
AND SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION
Presented by Group 4
Homans (1950)
◦ According to him it is a group as collection of two or more
persons who are in social interaction, who are guided by
similar norms, values, and expectations, and who maintain
a stable pattern of relations over a period of time.
Donald Light (1984)
◦ Defines a group as set of individuals who identify and interact with one another in a
structured way based on shared values and goals.
Social Group
◦ Is a unit of interacting personalities with interdependence of roles and statuses existing
between and among themselves. It is a collection of people who interact with each
other in accordance with the position they occupy in the society.
Jarry, D. (1995)
◦ He refers Social Organization a type of collectivity established for
the pursuit of the specific aims or goals, characterized by a
formal structure of rules, authority relations, a division of labor and
limited membership or admission
Social Group
◦ Society with a group of individuals call a social group. A social group exists when at
least two people are in contact and commonly stimulating and reacting with each
other through language both verbal and non-verbal. This shared between interstimulation and reaction between at least two people and groups is referred to as
social interaction.
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
◦ Is interaction persists often enough, a pattern of a social relation exists which is
reciprocal in nature that is the behavior of the interactants derives its meaning from his
relation to the other persons or persons involved.
◦ Example of social ralations;
◦ Husband- wife
Employer-employees
◦ Mother- daughter
Teacher-students
Social status
◦ A social status is a collection of rights and duties that goes with a
position in a group.
◦ A status may be ascribed or achieved.
ASCRIBED STATUS
◦Is the status by virtue of one’s birth.
◦He does not have a choice or decision on the
matter such as his sex, age, gender, kinship, religion
or nationality at birth.