Crash Course Sociology Episode Worksheet | 16 - Social Groups

Define and distinguish related sociology terms: social group, aggregate, and category; primary and secondary groups; instrumental and expressive leaders; in-groups and out-groups.

Summarize the Milgram Experiment, including its purpose and its 65% compliance result.

Explain groupthink and the role of reference groups and social networks in shaping behavior.

Have students watch the linked video once through, then a second time pausing to answer each question as its concept comes up.

The answer key's model answers are written as complete sentences, so they can double as a model for how students should phrase their own short answers.

Because several questions build on each other (aggregate vs. category vs. social group; instrumental vs. expressive leader), consider a quick pair-share discussion before moving to the Milgram Experiment questions.

Video-based comprehension — students extract and record definitions and facts while watching an instructional video.

Compare-and-contrast reasoning — several questions ask students to distinguish paired concepts (aggregate vs. category, instrumental vs. expressive leader, in-group vs. out-group).

Sociology vocabulary acquisition — students explain sociology terms and concepts including social groups, leadership, groupthink and social networks.