As you read recently, people have different reasons for joining groups. Schutz, remember, says this is because of interpersonal needs. But as you’ve now just read, every group has particular norms that will guide (either implicitly or explicitly) how people are “allowed” or expected to behave in them – regardless of their own personal needs/desires.
Identify a group you were sort of “required” to join. You may have “chosen” to join it, but felt you had to for some reason (e.g., for work, to get ahead socially or in school, for prestige, access, etc.), so it wasn’t entirely voluntary for yourself. Then, identify and discuss some of the norms of this group that you don’t particularly like personally, because of some of your own interpersonal tastes/preferences/needs.
Make sure to explain how it does/doesn’t match up to your needs & why that is; the level of explicit/implicitness of those norms and how that’s good and bad, etc.; and provide detailed examples of all these ideas as you discuss them. also use the key terms from the reading and bold them.
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