SOC101: Assignment

BS180202234
Suleman Khan

Question:
Groups are composed of two or more people having a certain level of interaction and a sense of
belonging or common interests. Groups can be of different types depending upon the motives
and characteristics of its members. Identify the types of Groups in the given scenarios and give
justification for each type in your own words.

Scenario Identification Justification

In a session of National In group The PTI members are in-group
Assembly with the and the opposition members
participation of different are out-groups.
political parties, all members
of PTI will belong
to which group in sociological
terms?

All the Colleagues of different Primary group This is the example of a

departments in an organization
meeting daily at office
cafeteria and often
sharing jokes at lunch will
belong to which group in
sociological terms?
University Students of 1st
semester looking forward to
perform exceptionally
good in the finals like their
senior class in sociology
subject. To them the senior
class students will belong to
which group in sociological
terms?
Military Teams of Russia and Secondary Group
Pakistan participating in the
International Military
Drill Competition in the UK.
Both teams while in
competition exhibit which
type of group?
primary group because its
members are frequently
interacting face to face, they
are informal, and this group is
smaller in size.
Out- group This can be called an out-
group because: The students
of sociology of 1st semester are
in-group. Their seniors are the
example of out-group because
they are not present in the 1st
semester.
This military drill is the
example of secondary group,
as members of the two team
are not interested in informal
chatting or have feelings for
each other. They are goal or
achievement oriented. To the
Russian military team, its
members are in-group and to
them the Pakistani military is
out-group and vice versa.