Y10 S&E

Monday, August 07, 2006

Society and Environment Assessment Task 2

Theme: People form social groups and they are influenced by the particular culture of the group.
Task: “Groups in society”

Outcomes:
Investigation, Communication and Participation (all aspects)
Culture: Personal, Group and Cultural Identity

Due Date: Monday 14 August 2006

Select one group from any society to investigate.
Examples: Red Guard, Hitler Youth, Hippies, Goths…..

Use the focus question sheets from the library to develop a research outline.

You must predict what you expect to discover using the knowledge from Anna, Black Friday and your own social group.

Your group can exist today or have existed in the past.

You must have NOTES on the following areas:

1) Describe the group. When existed, how formed, informal, formal group…..
2) Who are the group members? Gender, age…..
3) Why does/did group exist? What is its purpose? (functions of groups)
4) How is the group organised?
5) What are the beliefs of the group? Account for these beliefs.
6) What are the “rules” that group members must adhere to?
7) How did the group make members conform to the rules of the group?
8) Does/did the group have a particular trademark? (Use of special phrases, wearing of special clothes, similar likes and dislikes)
9) Is there a group leader? How did this person become the leader? How does/did your group change the leader?
10) Does the group still exist? How has it changed to adapt to differing time periods? L5
11) Has this group been discriminated against or discriminated against a group of people? Explain why this occurred. L5
12) How is/was this group treated by the main stream society? Did the laws of the society allow the group to continue?

Support you work with pictures and diagrams.

Social Groups

Social Group Functions
•Physical: satisfy needs of food, shelter, protection.
•Psychological: cope with stress by getting comfort and reassurance, approval, friendship, recognition and power.
•Material: To supply economic needs.
•Cultural: Join with people of similar beliefs, backgrounds and customs.
•Other: personal attraction.
Characteristics of Social Groups
•Age of members
•Sex (gender)
•Size
•Methods of determining members
•Initiation ceremonies
•Visual methods of showing membership
•Other methods of showing membership
•Aims or Goals
•Rules and Social norms
•How members are rewarded
•How members are punished
•Reasons for joining
•Reasons for leaving
•Structure of members and leaders

Click here and see if you can identify some common groups http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/Activities/subcultures.html
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Subcultures for list of sub-cultural groups
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_Subcultures for young subculture groups