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Opener

• Look at opener and answer questions as

papers are being passed out.

• Keep these (questions on tests arise from

worksheets/ etc)

Sociology, 12th Edition by John Macionis

Copyright 2008 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Opener 1: Please watch the

video clip and answer on regular

paper (keep it for a few) • 1. Have you ever behaved like this in

public?

• 2. What is your gut reaction to this type of behavior?

• 3. Sociological hypothesis- why do people act like this?

• 4. Is “Black Thursday” the new norm for American culture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=623Oga9NPvE



Social Groups and

Bureaucracies Video- Soc (Herd mentality)

I. Groups

• Group—at least two

people who have

one or more goals in

common and share

common ways of

thinking and

behaving

*Differs from

“Aggregate”

A Group is a group of people who

share several features including:

• They are in regular contact with each other

• They share some ways of thinking, feeling, and

behaving

• They take one another’s behavior into account

• They have one or more goals in common

Primary Groups

• People who are

emotionally close,

know one another

well and seek one

another’s company

• E.g. Family,

childhood play

groups, close

friends, neighbors

Primary Groups

• Enjoy each other’s company

• Primary Relationships---Personal, caring,

fulfilling relationships

How do Primary Groups Develop?

• Small size

• Face-to-Face Contact

• Continuous Contact

• Proper Social Environment

Functions of Primary Groups

• Emotional Support

• Socialization

• Encourage Conformity

• 646

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW5wmixeK4M

Secondary Groups

• Impersonal

• Goal oriented

• Purpose of the group is to accomplish a task, not to enrich friendships

• E.g. Work groups, sports teams, volunteers

• Secondary relationships—clerk & customer, employers & workers, dentists & patients

Your Turn Indicate Primary or Secondary

for each relationship A. A marine recruit & his drill instructor at

boot camp ___________________________

B. A married couple __________________

C. A coach & his soccer team __________

D. A teacher & his student _____________

E. A car salesperson and her potential

customer _________________________

Group Think

Why does Group Think occur?

• Why would you say you agree with other

people in the group if you really don’t?

Group Think

• Because of the difficulty of going against

decisions made by the group, some sociologists

believe that Groupthink exists

• Happens when group members agree to conform

rather than express their true feelings or beliefs

• Can lead to ineffective or destructive

consequences- examples?

• Soc Vids 1. Zimbardo

Vid 2- Who concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgceZ7p31Cg

We & They

• In Groups—require extreme loyalty & its

norms encourage members to exclude

others

• Out Groups—group toward which the in

group feels opposition or competition

• EXAMPLES?

Other Groups

• Reference Groups—group used for self-

evaluation and the formation of attitudes,

values, beliefs, and norms

ex- your youth group, “honors students”,

“the gang”

• Social Network—all of a person’s social

relationships make up his or her social

network

Ex- facebook (sorta)

Primary & Secondary Groups

Assignment- DO NOW • Create a web diagram of the primary &

secondary groups to which you belong on

the BACK of the paper give,

• Include at least three primary &

three secondary groups • Then explain the function of each of these

groups in your life

• Flip over and complete the back (role

strain/ conflict)

Example

• http://www.spicynodes.org/a/3fc978a71045

3eba5951dfc65e282083



http://www.spicynodes.org/a/3fc978a710453eba5951dfc65e282083http://www.spicynodes.org/a/3fc978a710453eba5951dfc65e282083http://www.spicynodes.org/a/3fc978a710453eba5951dfc65e282083

Social Cohesions and

Society….The bigger groups are

the harder things get?

• GROUP Interaction SIMULATION!



• Arrange group members in a circle,

standing shoulder to shoulder.



• Everyone has to put their right hand up in

the air, and then grab the hand of someone

across the circle from them.



• Everyone then puts their left hand up in the

air and grabs the hand of a different

person.



• Check to make sure that everyone is

holding the hands of two different people

and that they are not holding hands with

someone directly next to them.



• members will untangle themselves to make

a circle without breaking the chain of

hands.

• If group members break the chain they

need to start over.



• How did it feel to be successful/

unsuccessful?

• What strategy did your team end up using

to complete the task?

• Who were the leaders in this activity?

• Did the team reach consensus on a plan of

action? What process did the team go

through to reach consensus?

• How do you feel your team communicated

during this activity?

Sociology, 12th Edition by John Macionis Copyright 2008 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Explain and Give and Example in

your own life of…(Check packet

if forgot) • 1. Role Strain • 2. Role Conflict

• 3. Groupthink

• 4. learned helplessness

• 5. reference group

Discussion

• We’ve come a long way since

hunting/gathering…but have we evolved for

the better?

• As you watch this, think of how the main

character’s life is controlled



Growth of Society

From Agricultural to post-

industrial

• Modern times?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdmaFJ6W6Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdmaFJ6W6Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdmaFJ6W6Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdmaFJ6W6M



II. Visions of Society Four diverse perspectives on what accounts

for social change and societal evolution

• Gerhard Lenski

– Society and technology

• Karl Marx

– Society in conflict

• Max Weber

– The power of SYMBOLS (ideas) shapes society

• Emile Durkheim

– How traditional and modern societies hang together



Gerhard Lenski

• Sociocultural evolution–The changes that

occur as a society gains new technology

• Societies range from simple to the

technologically complex.

• Societies simple in technology tend to

resemble one another.



Lenski’s Five Types Of Societies • Hunting and gathering

– The use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation

• Horticultural and pastoral

– Horticulture–The use of hand tools to raise crops

– Pastoralism–The domestication of animals

• Agriculture

– Large-scale cultivation using plows harnessed to animals or more

powerful energy sources

• Industrialism

– The production of goods using advanced sources of energy to

drive large machinery

• Postindustrialism

– The production of information using computer technology

• 21st Century world can be CONFUSING!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCAlZ

PF0D0



Part 2

• Mcdonaldization of Society- Directions:

Please read and complete the the

handout(s).



Mcdonaldization of society?

• Describe PROS and CONS to this type of

system



Society

• To what extent would you agree with the

author’s analogy of society?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy1Ag

O6Fp4&feature=related

• How has 21st century tech (smartphones/

social networking, etc) affected society

further? Sociology, 12th Edition by John Macionis


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy1AgO6Fp4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy1AgO6Fp4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy1AgO6Fp4&feature=related

Opener2 : A Bureaucracy… is

• a system of administration based upon

organization into bureaus,

division of labour, a hierarchy of authority,

etc…

..designed to

dispose of a large body of work in a routine

manner

Draw a picture of this on your notes



Examples of Bureaucracies I.



MAX Weber’s Rational Social

Organization Distinctive social institutions that see

to meeting the demands of a growing, complex society Six Characteristics:

1. Hierarchy

2. Rules

3. Function

4. Focus

5. Impersonality

6. Qualification

Expressed in

bureaucracy!!!!!! ..see MINI 4



A. Max Weber

• Also Claimed that the key to the birth of

industrial capitalism lay in the Protestant

Reformation (“protestant work ethic”).

• Industrial capitalism is the major outcome

of Calvinism.

• The Calvinist idea of predestination

– Worldly prosperity ($$$) is a sign of God's

grace.

– Poverty is a sign of God's rejection (or YOU

did something WRONG).



B. Karl MARX: Alienation

• Alienation–The experience of isolation &

misery resulting from powerlessness.

Capitalism alienates workers in four

specific ways:

– 1. From the act of working

• Workers have no say in production; work is

tedious and repetitive.

– 2. From the products of work

• Workers have no ownership or pride in the

product that is sold for profit

Alienation

• Capitalism alienates workers in four specific ways:

3. From other workers

• Work is competitive rather than cooperative.

4. From human potential

• Workers do not “fulfill themselves” in their work.

• People feel like the job is a waste of time/ life.

Capitalism and Alienation

• Marx: To the capitalists, workers are

nothing more than a source of labor.



Revolution

• MARX:The only way out of capitalism is to remake society.

• Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmLavg_eFuc



C. Durkheim

• 1. Organic solidarity–Social bonds based

on specialization and interdependence

that are strong within industrial societies

• Key to the change is an expanding division

of labor–Specialization of economic

activity

Mechanical Solidarity

• 2. Mechanical solidarity–Social bonds

based on common sentiment and shared

moral values that are common among

members of preindustrial societies

C. Durkheim

• Warned that modern society creates

anomie- “A”= without, “ nomos”= law

• A condition of instability resulting from a

breakdown of standards and values or

from a lack of purpose or ideals- video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER987vFx6EY

D. The Peter Principal (Dr. Laurence J. Peter)

• An observation that in an organizational

hierarchy, every employee will rise or get

promoted to his or her level of

incompetence

• Explained

http://money.howstuffworks.com/peter-principle.htm

• Video!? Modeling- AND americas broken

dream.



• Video Discussion: How did this video show

Alienated workers and Anomie in society?

(look at your notes for the four concepts of

alienation)

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