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Name: Gotanco, Craig Glenross C. Section: A 1 Date: June 19, 2019

Science, Technology and Society

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UNDERSTANDING GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Topic/Lesson
Social interaction among human beings is necessary to the transmission of culture and
the survival of every society. This module examines the impact of small groups, formal
organizations, and voluntary associations on social behavior.

1. How do Sociologists distinguish between various types of groups?

A group is a set of people that is at least two or more that interact with
one another and share a sense of identity with each other. According to Cooley,
there are two types of group namely the primary group and the secondary
group. The primary group consist of people small in size and mostly have
emotional attachment with one another such as family and friends while the
secondary group are set of people group up to perform a shared task to make
progress and to achieve a shared goal mostly people working in a company or
scientist with a goal to achieve. Sometimes there are misconceptions on a
perception of a group such as how cueing lines are categorized as a group but
it is not true for they are only an aggregate of people or preferably a crowd. A
crowd is a set of people with interaction but they don’t share the same type of
identity with each other.

2. How does cultural diversity affect the performance of small groups in the
workplace?
Cultural diversity affects how a certain group on how it operates or how it can
achieve their shared goal such as how culture affect a person’s identity. As a group, they
have a shared a similar goal or identity and so they form a group even though they have
different personalities. Personality of a person came from his environment, absorbing
culture and beliefs of people around him thus forming a group with people of different
personalities will create a clash of ideas on how to achieve their shared goal making
different approaches but still contribute to the group’s success.
3. How important are informal structures within formal organizations?
Formal organization focusses on the tasks ahead of them and to achieve their
goals and objectives trough the power given to them by the head of the organization
creating separate roles to perform while abiding the rules and regulations they have been
given. The informal structures support the formal organizations from a different
perspective such as giving emotional support and encouraging such person to continue
the work they have started and work outside the boundaries of the given regulations
resulting in a collaboration that enables problem to be answered through suggestions of
many people and to create innovations trough debate of ideas of different people with
different roles.
4. When we find ourselves identifying closely with group, is it probably a primary
group?
Probably yes, for a primary group is a group that is characterized by having a
close relationship or attachment to the group mostly about loyalty to the people in that
group or we are caring to the people on that group and in return they too are concerned
and caring towards us. People identifying themselves closely with group become more
supportive and concerned on a personal standpoint thus increasing the relationship with
one another deepening their bonds with each other as time passes by.
5. As Max Weber identified five basic characteristics of bureaucracy. Select
an actual with which you are familiar (for example, your college, a
business, a business at which you work, a religious institution or civic
association to which you belong) and apply Weber’s analysis to that
organization to what degree does it correspond to Weber’s ideal type of
bureaucracy?

Rules are implemented throughout the school and such is written on a

student’s handbook and they are expected to carry out these rules and abide
them. Safety and precautions are also expected to be carried out in the
institution like Mapua from the explicit rules stated on the hand book given to
students.
In Mapua, there is a clear division of roles such as when professors from
the department of physics teaches physics course for it is his forte while professors
of CBMES typically teaches Chemistry related courses.
In the school such as Mapua there is a set of individuals that governs the
school forming groups of people with a leader and members like how the
general director of school set task to lower members of the organization.
Salaries are dictated by the roles a person performs in the organization
meaning his salary depends on how he works such as how professors have fixed
salary for them while members of the board have higher salaries for they have
bigger responsibility. Impersonality means being fair and equal to one another

You may consult this reference

Schaefer, Richard T.
Sociology/ Richard T. Schaefer, Robert P. Lamm- 5th Ed., © 1995.