11/12/13Recitation1. Social Group – who you know/associate yourself witha. Primary: interact directly (ex. Digital network)b. Secondary: identify with but haven’t met them (ex. Democrat)2. Friendship – voluntary, informal, you can choose, mutuala. Networking for Urban Poori. Close-together living: people help out each other during hardtimes, expecting something back in returnii. Carol Stack: did fieldwork in “The Flats” (poorest black com-munities) to show how friendship promote economic survival among the poor3. Countercultural Groups – used in America towards Hindisa. Examples:i. Gangs: highly organized/sophisticated with tangable benefitsii. Body Modifications: identification based group4. Cooperatives – economic groups with economic motivation where sur-pluses are shared in a contained communitya. Type of globalization: protecting worker rights and wage prices, dif-fering from guilds and unionsb. Examples: agriculture and credit cooperatives5. Clubs – formed around the subjectivea. Definite mechanism of “membership”i. Examples:1. “Hazing” – membership control2. Gynophoebic Men’s Club – male groups have reac-tions towards intruding women (gang rape or a train)3. Fraternities/Sororitiesb. Youth Gangsi. had defiant individualist personalities of....intense competi-tiveness, mistrust, self-reliance, social isolation...ii. structuralist view: poverty leads to the development of this personality6. Stratification – economic or social term putting people into a hierarchy to pronounce people with higher privileges than othersa. Only recognized by people not in that classb. Statusi. Ascribed Position1. Race of Ethnicitya. Castei. Families with similarities (Jati) who are closeii. Have mobility (individuals don’t)iii. Traced back generations with a sense ofbeing locked into positionsiv. linked with Hinduism (India)v. Varnas - Hindu way of describing social categoriesvi. Dalit - “oppressed” or “ground down”b. Genderi. Patriarchy: system of ideologies/institu-tional mechanisms where men will have more power than womenii. Achieved Position1. Personality traits2. Learned through life3. Ex. Homelessness4. Classa. A type of social class tied to economics dealingwith place in a power structure of laboriii. Civil Society – affect change on society through gov (NGOS)1. Not always official organizations2. Active citizens that have some sort of power of gov3. Personal responsibility as social responsibility4. encompasses social groups existing between the indi-vidual and the state5. Examplesa. Activist groups: on behalf of people who are different from them with goal of changing socialconditionsb. Social Movements: gathering together to help make changes in their societyi. CO-MADRES: women-led social move-ment in Latin Americac. Women’s movement in China: improve women’s lives, mobilize them, take part in liter-acy