Social Groups and Boundaries

A:  In-group:is a social group towards which an individual feels loyalty and respect, usually due to membership in the group
B:  Out-Group:an out group is a social group towards which an individual feels contempt, opposition, or a desire to compete
C:  Social Boundaries:the limits to which you can "push the envelope" on what is acceptable behavior
D.  Reference Group:a concept referring to a group to which an individual or another group is compared.

After reading chapters 6 and 7, we learned a lot about social deviance along with many other terms. In any certain society in which an individual belongs, there will be both in groups which can be defined as; a social group towards which an individual feels loyalty and respect, and out groups, that could be defined as; social groups towards which an individual feels contempt, opposition, or desire to compete. Almost any individual could at any given moment find themselves a part of either. In everyday life I myself can acknowledge my part of an in group. Being in the Army and spending my time around the same groups of people, I've realized that the Junior Enlisted will become members of a group, maybe without being aware of it. This can be observed if you were to stand in a room, where there were a few Junior Enlisted soldiers and and few NCO's separated in groups. If you were to watch what particular group that soldier would walk up to, I could almost guarantee it would be the group of soldiers in which that soldier belonged. The same situation could be used to demonstrate out groups. If their were two Junior Enlisted soldiers called over to talk to a group of NCO's whether to explain an exercise or present an idea, both would feel they had to earn their spot in the group. By having the opportunity to demonstrate themselves at their best moment, they would put adequate effort to prove that one day, they will belong to that group, or even that they're already capable to do so.

Based on in groups, out groups and a...