We All Fit In Somewhere

Living in the world we do today, we all want to be a part of something. Whether it be a club, organization, athletic team, academic team, or even a church ministry, we ALL want to be in a group. It is just human nature to want to fit in somewhere, some way or somehow. In chapter 7, we talked about organizations and groups. Groups have many different categories. These include social groups, primary groups, secondary groups, reference groups, in groups, and out groups. The most predominant place that we know of that involves groups is school. When in middle and high school everyone knows who the ingroup andoutgroup are. The ingroup are the individuals generally hold overly positive views of themselves and only exist in relation to the outgroup. The outgroup people are what we know as the “weird” kids. They may be socially, politically, and economically subordinated by the ingroup. In that time in our lives we don’t necessarily have a choice on which group we fall in to. We just somehow seem to be there. Now with being in college we really don’t see too much the typical ingroup and outgroup. No one cares who you hang out with because we all realize that we must do what makes us happy. There’s no jocks vs. nerds because those jocks could be nerds. I feel that it is okay to want to be in a group that you self-identify with but you must not let that group control who are. It’s okay to be yourself and not follow the crowd.

https://www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/social-groups-and-organization-6/the-nature-of-groups-53/in-groups-and-out-groups-338-10455/

http://www.simplypsychology.org/social-identity-theory.html