Sociology Semester 3

Q: List down the names of groups from which you

belong and why?

Ans:

List of groups I belong to:

1-Primary Group :

The first group I belong to is a primary group

that constitutes my family. I belong to my family as I live

with them, continuously interact with them (face to

face), share feelings and care for them. Although there

are only three members in my family but it is for an

extended period of time.

Another example for primary group are my friends.We

interact on a daily basis, have informal conversations, a

sense of freedom and spontaneity.

2-Secondary Group:

The second group I belong to is a secondary

group.

For example, my sociology class.That is a large group of

pupils having face to face interaction for a shorter span

(an hour a day) excluding weekends for one

semester.We all have the same purpose, sort of formal

conversations , the role of our personality involved is as

a classmate or a student.

3-Voluntary Group

A voluntary group is the one that is by choice.I be

going on an appointment with a physiotherapist. Now,

there is an opportunity of choosing the physiotherapist

myself. As I better demonstrate whether to bookappointment for a female therapist or a male therapist

or even by the age group or experience basis.

4-In-voluntary Group:

Most often in the university I become a part of

the involuntary group where the teachers of different

subjects split students randomly for making group

assignments or presentations.It is a type of involuntary

group as the students have no choice of choosing their

type of students or maybe their friends and have to

manage with the students the teacher selects for them.

5-In Group :

I am Muslim Sunni.People around me who

are Sunni are making an in-group with me as we share

the same Religious group.That is our unchanged

identity.

Another example for this is my cast.Just like I am Malik

Awan.People who belong to the same cast are my

in-groups.

6-Out Group :

Out group is in a competitive sense.The

competition of my Religion (Islam) with some other

religion (Christianity) comes under out-group.

Another example of this is a comparison of my cast

Malik Awan with some other cast e.g. Gujjar.

7-Reference Group :

After getting lecture in sociology class.It

becomes my responsibility to show the outcomes

according to what my mind absorbed.For example, it

becomes my responsibility to impart ethics,a good social

behavior and good use of language publicly.This

behaviour is termed as a reference group.We behave amember of the sociology lecture that was delivered to

teach us about good social interaction