After completing Chapter 2, you should be able to:
- Understand the concept of social organization and the role it plays in the behavior of people.
- Distinguish between social structures and culture and the part each plays in the social organization of people.
- Discuss various forms of social structures-aggregates and groups, in particular-and understand the part social interaction plays in distinguishing one from the other.
- Understand the basic nature of culture and the role it plays is shaping and limiting social life for members of society.
- Distinguish between primary and secondary groups and discuss the characteristics of each.
- Understand and discuss the power the social groups holds over their members and how that power is manifested.
- Discuss society as a social system along with they ways it which societies organizes themselves to maintain stability.
- Understand how the continuing interactions between members of societies may be the source of social change.
