| A | B |
| Mechanical Solidarity | share same values and same tasks-become united in a common whole |
| Organic Solidarity | With increased separation and specialization when industrialization takes president |
| Emile Durkheim | Describe separation between Industrial and post industrial |
| Ferdinand Tonnies | German sociologist identified two ideal types of society |
| Gemeinschaft | refers to societies in which most members know each other |
| Gesellschaft | social relationships based upon need rather than emotion |
| Aggregate | Without organization, people are not considered a group |
| Social Category | A classification tool to categorize traits that form groups and aggregates. |
| Diad | A group of two |
| Triad | A group of three |
| Time | Emphasis on amount and repetition |
| Formal | defined guidelines |
| Informal | no official structure/ rule of conduct |
| Primary | Small group that interact over a long period of time |
| Secondary | Impersonal in nature |
| Reference Group | Group in which individuals identify with members and change values and norms to fit |
| In Group/Out Group | Based upon identifying with the group |
| E Communities | New trend in post industrial Society |
| Social Networks | Combination of direct and indirect relationships at the same time |
| Elect Leaders | People of power |
| Instrumental | Task oriented |
| expressive leaders | emotion; work on effectiveness of group |
| Food Foraging | daily collection of wild pants and the hunting of wild animals |
| Pastoralism | Relying of domesticated herd animals to meet their food needs |
| Horticulture | Fruits and vegetables grown in garden plots that have been cleared from the jungle or forest to provide the main source of food |
| Agricultural | Animals are used to pull plows to till the fields |
| Industrial | Emphasis shifts from the producion of food to the production of maunfactured goods |
| Postindustrialism | Economy is involved in providing information and services |