Sociology Exercise – Group Behaviour Name: __________________ ID: ______________

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Sociology Exercise – Group Behaviour        Name: __________________ ID: ___________________

1. In one or two sentences, describe a recent experience in which you found yourself a member of or participating in a group of other people.

a. Briefly describe the physical surroundings / environment if not clear from the above.

b. Briefly explain the purpose and context of the experience (work, study, play, socialise, etc.)

2. Identify / list the attributes or characteristics of the group from the perspective of a sociologist. Questions and prompts to guide your thoughts:

What makes this group unique? What gives it its identity?

What is the group’s “personality” or culture?

What aspects of sociology or social themes are apparent in the group?

What suggests participants are more alike or more dissimilar from one another?

Try to categorise the attributes / characteristics in ways that make sense from a sociological perspective. Be as specific and concrete as possible.

Explanation / Answer

1.Recently few of my friends opened a truck and named it as SMILES FOOD DONATION... Coming to the theme of this organization is they collect food that is left in any parties, functions or hotels. I liked their idea very much and started working with them but only in weekends ( because my parents won't let me go in my college days)

b. By participating in this group i found out the exact meaning of real happiness in the people's eyes after donating food to the poor who starve in streets. We started with one truck and later few sponsors appreciated our efforts and donated two more vehicles.. we started to create groups in social media and invite people in our city who can join us in this food donations organization.

2.This organization started with my friends idea who felt really bad when large amount of food cooked for a wedding is being dumped in trash and he decided to donate the food that is left in any event. We divide into groups and contact the event management people and explain the whole concept of our donation and they will call us back at the end if there is any food left in the event. We will then go and collect the food, then find out the poor people starving in streets and stop the vehicle there and donate the food and move on. This is the exact purpose of our group.

I think this concept alone makes this group unique. Now we have a identity in our city and receiving many calls to come and collect food. The proper study about this poor starving people's problem and deciding to help them out is the main reason for the foundation of this group...

The one more socialogical perspective by our group is saying no to birthday parties. We really feel wasting money for our lavish birthday parties is pretty stupid and instead we are buying cakes, chocolates, gifts to kids in orphanage and spending the entire day with them playing and giving two meals in that day and all our friends in this group are supporting this idea.

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