NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -W.G. Summer, an eminent American sociologist, has classified social groups into two types in his book ‘Folkways’. These are: (a) In-group to which individual belongs. (b) Out-group to which individual does not belong.

Detailed explanation-2: -W.G. Sumner made a division of groups into in-group and out-group. The groups with which the individual identifies himself are his in-groups such as his family, tribe, college, occupation etc. All other groups to which he does not belong are his out-groups.

Detailed explanation-3: -(1) The groups with which individual identifies himself are his in group. one’s family, one’s college are example of his in group. But out groups refers to those groups with which individual do not identify himself. These are outside groups.