"This volume discusses the difference between how groups operate versus how individuals behave. Principles of Sociology: Group Relationships & Behavior is the second title in Salem's Principles of Sociology series. This series is intended to introduce students and researchers to the fundamentals of important and far-reaching topics in sociology using easy-to-understand language."--Publisher information.

Social movements & collective behavior -- Stratification & class in the U.S. -- Social interaction in groups & organizations -- Sociology of religion. Introduction -- Contributors -- Social Movements & Collective Behavior -- Collective Behavior: Contagion Theory -- Convergence Theory -- Dispersed Collectivities: Rumors and Gossip -- Emergent-Norm Theory -- Gay Rights Movement -- Gender Socialization -- Localized Collectivities: Mobs, Riots and Crowd Behavior -- Mass Hysteria -- Mass Media, Propaganda and Public Opinion -- Moral Panic -- Moral Policing -- Narrative and Social Movements -- Religion & Sexuality -- Sexual Revolution and Counter Revolution -- Sociology of the Internet -- Women's Rights Movement -- Stratification & Class in the U.S. -- Assessing Class: Education -- Assessing Class: Income -- Assessing Class: Lifestyle Choices -- Assessing Class: Wealth -- Class System -- Contradictory Class Locations -- Cultural Theories of Poverty -- Demographics of Poverty -- Gender and Stratification: The Effects of Social Marginalization -- Middle Class in America -- Poor and the Working Poor -- Poverty and Social Exclusion -- Social Exclusion -- Social Exclusion and Crime -- Social Mobility and the Postindustrial Society -- Social Mobility in the U.S. -- Stratification and Class: Income Inequality -- Underclass in America -- Upper Class -- Wealth Inequality -- Working Class -- Social Interaction in Groups & Organizations -- Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-Faire Leadership -- Bourdieu's Habitus -- Bureaucratic Inertia -- Bureaucratic Surveillance -- Characteristics of Bureaucracies -- Coercive Organizations -- Conformity -- Corporate Dissenters -- Deindividuation -- Group Polarization -- Group Size -- Groupthink -- Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups -- Informal Relations within Bureaucracies -- Ingroups and Outgroups -- Japanese Formal Organizations -- McDonaldization -- Mechanistic and Organic Organizations -- Merton's Dysfunctions of Bureaucracies -- Normative Organizations -- Oligarchies -- Open Organizations -- Organizational Environment -- Primary and Secondary Groups -- Race and Gender in Formal Organizations -- Reference Groups and Role Models -- Scientific Management in Organizations -- Social Category and Social Aggregate -- Social Interaction: Networks -- Social Media as Social Interaction -- Social Networks: Social Capital -- Technology in Modern Organizations -- Transformational and Transactional Leadership -- Types of Authority -- Utilitarian Organizations -- Sociology of Religion -- Assessing Religiosity -- Atheism in America -- Churches, Denominations, Sects & Cults -- Civil Religion -- Feminist Theology -- Media Ministries -- Religion, Government & Politics -- Religion & Industrialization -- Religion & Social Change -- Religion & Society: Religious Persecution -- Religious Economy -- Religious Nationalism -- Secularization -- Sociological Theories of Religion: Conflict Analysis -- Sociological Theories of Religion: Structural Functionalism -- Sociological Theories of Religion: Symbolic Interactionism -- World Religions.