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ES FO) rn eS PHOTO 5.2 Study groups are secondary groups because they serve a purpose. College students join study groups because they expect their participation in the group to enhance their grades. Source: Jacob Lund/Shutterstock. As you know from Chapter 4, dimensions of stratification such as gender and race/ethnicity exert strong influences on eople's social experiences, regardless of whether they are aware of these effects. Is it surprising that the social categories women, Blacks, and Jews (but not men, Whites, and Protestants) were included in the groups listed in Table 5.1? As we noted in Chapter 4, people frequently define themselves in terms of status characteristics that distinguish them from dominant groups because these characteristics are salient and readily recognized as determinants of their social experiences. Finally, individuals routinely have superficial, fleeting encounters in public or semipublic spaces with individuals who are in a specific location for similar reasons. These are the loose affiliations listed in Table 5.1, Although such encounters may be be viewed as being of little importance, students recognize these situations as indicative of a particular type: of group e experience What Do You Think? * Go back and look at your list of group affiliations (from the exercise on p. 24). Which groups are the most important to you? Why? How similar are vour group affiliations to those listed in Table 5.1? Where in Table 5.1 (into which category or categories) would you put your | think it's interesting how just being +4 @ in the same space as people can make you feel connected, even if you don't talk to anyone. Those quick encounters might not seem like a big deal, but they still shape how we see ourselves about others. It's like we pick up on shared experiences without even realizing it. @ & W # Jun 13 9:50 pm | like to connect this to parallel play, where two people occupy the same space and do their own things within that occupied space. & & Ff Jun15 8:21pm Ais Bey arb eohwm & of