Identify at least two groups of which you are a member. One should be a formal group, for example people you work with on a regular basis either in your employment or at college. The other should be a more informal group that only exists because its members decide to associate with each other. Now look carefully at the two lists of functions of groups given above and answer the following questions.

To what extent does the formal group facilitate the formal functions being achieved?

To what extent does the formal group fulfil some of the informal functions?

Although the informal group probably has no explicit formal functions, are there any that it seems to have adopted?

To what extent does the informal group provide for meeting the informal functions of its members?