Chapter+05+Groups+and+Organizations

Dyad- a social group with two members.
 * Jessica and April are best friends in the movie and they form a very close dyad.

Network- a web of weak social ties.
 * Jessica, being very popular, knows a lot of people from her high school and also other area schools.

Primary group- a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships.
 * Jessica, April, Keecia, and Lulu all form a primary group together because they are all very close friends.

Out-group- a social group toward which a person feels a sense of competition of opposition.
 * Bianca’s cheer team is the out-group in the movie. Jessica and her team despises them the most because they are their biggest competition.

Groupthink- The tendency of group members to conform by adopting a narrow view of some issue. Oligarchy- The rule of the many by the few. Formal Organizations- Large, secondary groups that are organized to achieve goals efficiently. Secondary Group- A large and impersonal social group devoted to some specific interest or activity.
 * Jessica, April, Keecia, and Lulu all dislike the Foxes cheer team, even though they have never had a real conversation with them.
 * The high school Jessica attends is an example of an oligarchy because the Principals and staff have rule over the students.
 * When Jessica and her friends are trying to figure out how this happened they recruit Eden and Hildenburg to help. They only recruited these two because they felt they could help in figuring out what happened.
 * The high school student body could be considered a secondary group because not every student knows the others on a personal level, and everyone is there to earn a degree and graduate.