1. Vere Technical High School
Social Studies Department
Worksheet on Social Groups #3
Subject Teacher: Mr. D. Gooden
Name of Students: __________________________
Class: _____________
Instructions: The questions below are all based on social groups. Use whatever resources are
available to you to answer the questions. As best as possible, answers all questions in standard
English. Write all answers on FOLDER LEAVES (not book leaves) and staple them to worksheet
before handing them in to the teacher.
NB: Grade 9A is to do questions 1 & 2
Grade 9E is to do questions 3 & 4
Grade 9I is to do ONLY question 4.
Question 1
a) Identify TWO formal groups to which young people usually belong.
b) Outline TWO characteristics which hold members of formal groups together.
c) Give THREE reasons formal groups tend to have a longer lifespan than informal groups.
d) Suggest TWO activities an environmental club may organise to attract new members.
Question 2
a) Give ONEexample of EACH of the following:
i. Primary group
ii. Secondary group
b) Describe TWO ways in which the structure of a sports club differs from that of a gang.
c) Give THREE reasons a sports club may have difficulty in achieving its goals.
d) As a leader of your school's drug-free club suggest TWO activities which you think encourage
members to identify with the club's goals.
Question 3
a. Name the type of group to which the members of the football team belong.
b. Give THREE ways in which the group membership can be identified.
c. Describe TWO interests that the team shares.
d. Give THREE qualities that the captain of the football team should have.
e. Explain how the group responds to the needs of its members.
f. Describe THREE ways in which competition from other teams is likely to affect the members
of the football team.
Question 4
a. List THREE features of your school that make it a formal social group.
b. Identify ONE function carried out by EACH of the following:
i. Both the school and the family
ii. The school only
iii. The family only
c. Explain THREE ways in which a formal group, such as the school, church or youth club,
exercises control over its members.