Case Study of Group Membership

Group Culture, Group Type (Membership and Reference) Group

Norms, Group Values, and Group Conformity

People identify with certain social collectives or groups. These collectives include both those membership groups to which one belongs by virtue of birth or life circumstances (e.g. ethnic groups) and one's reference groups or those groups to which one belongs or aspires to belong and which are used as a basis of judging the adequacy of one's personal behavior.

All groups have some form of "group culture" which is to say that the group has a definite and unique pattern of social interaction related not only to how to behave but also how to communicate with other members and what members are to intellectual and emotionally cherish or value.

Group culture is given by those proscriptions of group culture which stipulate acceptable and unacceptable social interaction. These proscriptions are commonly referred to as norms. Norms

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