Social Groups

Party/Mixer Ideas That Were Successful When I Was in College

Submitted by Jenna Sacks on Mon, 2013-02-04 22:45

When I was in college, I held social chair positions in both my sorority as well as my cheerleading team.  I was also in charge of recruitment, so it was crucial that I always found new and fun mixer ideas.  Thinking of creative, fun ways to plan events can be beneficial in building relationships with other organizations, improving recruitment for any campus organization, or just prove to be a way to enhance hanging out with friends. Read more »

Social Groups--In Conclusion

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Fri, 2012-03-02 19:06

Since the types of groups addressed by this set of blog posts is so fundamental and overlaps with some other types of common groups it can be daunting to take full account of those types of groups all at once and in a comprehensive way. On the other hand there is a distinct sense in which those kinds of groups are quite separate from those other types of groups to begin with and in the sense that the differences are quite pronounced between them.

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Social Groups--Hybrid Groups

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Fri, 2012-03-02 18:56

There are some types of groups that are formed for the express purpose of forming these types of social bonds between members in addition to the type of goals the people set out to achieve.

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Social Groups--Some Concerns

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Fri, 2012-03-02 18:17

There are some concerns having to do with these social groups, including the notion that they can not always be readily distinguished from other similar types of social structures. For the first part it can be unclear whether a certain amalgam is indeed the type of thing that can be called in a proper sense a social group such as something that is primarily or at least partly having to do with the social bonds that can be part of the category of things exclusively or partly having to do with those same types of groups.

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Social Groups--Some Constraints

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Fri, 2012-03-02 17:48

As with all things there are some constraints and boundaries on social groups, past which the very nature of the group changes and it morphs into an informal social structure or some comparable amalgamation. The most obvious ones are delineated in the key differences section and involve the types of things that typically delineate the two types of things categorically, like the purposes the groups are convened for and the presence or absence of social bonds between the members of the groups.

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Social Groups--Key Differences

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Thu, 2012-03-01 10:09

There are some individual groups that can vary from university to university—for example there can be a group whose focus is on something only that university has, like a crop grown nearby or a particular cultural element native to that campus or even that region.

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Social Groups--Simple Strategies

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Wed, 2012-02-29 15:54

The most fundamental groups are formed around the types of things all people have in common, such as the capacity for speech and the desire for betterment. While there are some examples of people who cannot speak and people who do not desire a better life or a better self, there are by and large broad types of things common across all people, these types of things included.

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Social Groups--The Basics

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Wed, 2012-02-29 10:51

There are some basic principles that should be kept in mind when thinking about the various types of activities someone can do to better enable himself or herself to find the best kinds of social groups for him or her personal life and his or her professional life.  There are a number of ways for the person to at the same time end up with the same types of benefits by creating his or her own social groups around some common interests or some types of activities that each individual student has to do for one reason or another.

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Social Groups--An Overview

Submitted by murkyzephyr on Wed, 2012-02-29 10:20

Colleges typically involve some of the same types of structures in place for the use of the students, and so social groups can typically grow around these structures. From the perspective of a student looking to find those types of students with which he or she will get along the best, or simply looking to find those social groups that are in line with his or her social goals or more particularly those goals that are mediated or in fact may require the good graces of certain groups.

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