Hi groupmates, my name is Tolani Sorrie.

I have started the collaboration running and choose

orange as my color.

#1 How do ascribed and achieve statuses serve to identify who a person is in a culture? What are

reference groups? How are reference groups experienced in society?

Status is a belief that the society gave to particular individuals based on different identification

that distinguish level of position in the society. Achieved status is a social position that people

earned or acquired in their life time, which can reflect his/her ability, skill, and it can also be the

negative things that he/she done in the past. On the other hand, ascribed status is a status that one

person is born with or had no control over it like beauty or race. As an element of social

structure, status have impacts on one’s identity and how that individual is seen in a particular

culture. Master status is the term used to describe statues that directs others and thereby

determines that person's position in a society. Such identification has a negative or positive

impact in the society. In early periods, the statues given to the African Americans contributed to

many kinds of challenges in many aspects of their life. Reference group is a group we compare

ourselves with and eventually impact our way of thinking. Reference group influence individual

by setting a particular standard that serve as an applicable behavior.

Hey, groupmate. My name is Qihang Huang. I choose black as my color.

#2 Question:

What is a social role (give examples)? How does one violate his or her role? What is meant by

role exit? And how does role exit relate to the socialization process? Distinguish between

primary and secondary groups (give examples).

Answer:
 Social role is that someone holds particular status and are expected to have certain behaviors.

For example, a woman who is a mother has children, so the women are expected to take care of

her children. One violating his or her role presents on not playing his or her role irresponsibly

and not behaving what he or she is supposed to do. For example, a father leads his 12-year- old

children to drink alcohol. Role exist is to exist or not hold his or her status and identity, but to

establish new identity and social status. Role exist affects socialization process and interaction

between people who are related to his or her previous identity or social status. However, role

exist also influences the socialization process with new identity. For example, the way he or she

behaves. Primary group is a small, personal, and long-tern group, such as a family. Secondary

group is a large, formal, and short-term group, such as the classmates when a person is in grade

4. The differences between primary group and secondary group are the size, topics, and the time

to last.

----- Qihang Huang

Hey guys, my name is Anthony Chung

Question 3: What is meant by in-group and out-group? How is in-group connected to

primary group? How is out group connected to secondary group?

An in-group can be defined as a group where an individual feels like he or she

belongs in it. This type of group is typically small and includes people who share some

sort of mutual interest. They share similar characteristics of a primary group in that both

are small in size and people are usually more close-knit. Being involved in a sport and

playing on a team is a great example of an in-group. On the other hand, an out-group

can be identified from the perspective of an individual who doesn’t fit in or or identify

with a group. An example to clarify this can be the “nerdy” individuals in a school

environment. Compared to the rest of the school, they may seem different and don’t

conform to the average standards. This can be connected to secondary group because

there is little social interaction and relationships are temporary. They may socialize with

other students to ask for help on their assignments but never intend on creating close

ties with them. - Anthony Chung

Hi guys my name is Tam Nguyen and I will doing question number 4.

What are the five functional prerequisites that a society must satisfy if it is to
survive? Describe the differences between organic and mechanical solidarity.

1- Family: is continuing for male domination

2-Education: is for dividing society by level of achievement

3-Ideology: Religion suppress dissatisfaction with the provisions of society

4-Economy: serve to separate the “haves” and “have-nots”

5-Polity: runs by the economic “golden rule”

Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity refer to the concepts of solidarity as

developed by Émile Durkheim. Mechanical solidarity normally operates in "traditional"
and small scale societies and it is usually based on kinship ties of familial networks.
Organic solidarity comes from the interdependence that arises from specialization of
work and the complementarities between people which is a development which occurs
in "modern" and "industrial" societies.