Social Groups In Sociology Class And Social Class

Although social groups and social categories seem to be similar in text, these two terms vary in quite a bit of ways. According to Dalton Conley, “Social groups form the building blocks for society and most social interaction” (156). Social groups are groups that include two or more people that differentiate in three different ways. Integrations with different people at different times, identity or stance in a certain activity or group, and last but certainly not least, differentiation in norms or habits that other members in the social group may not completely share. For example, our sociology class is a social group. In the class, each and every one of us differentiates in some sort of dynamic, however, we all are interacting together to get to our individual educational goals. As for social categories, these are the people that don’t interact exactly. Instead, these are the people that share very similar characteristics. For example, a high school, in these schools many of the members share age, gender, opinions, or social classes …show more content…
This term is then split to four categories. First off, education can impact crime rates because of the relation that students with less education, may possess less motivation and have a bigger chance of committing crime. Family relations can impact one’s life very directly because of the association of bad home life to bad actions or crimes. Thirdly, institutional involvement shows that people included in more religious communities have a less chance of committing crime. Finally, peer relations demonstrate that poor peer relations lead to peer pressure that in most cases lead to poor or illegal choices. All these groups work together because we are all part of them in some way and even the slightest wrong in one of the categories could produce poor