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In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. [1]

94 relations: Academic probation, Administrative Behavior, Aggression, Atherosclerosis, Average, Band society, Bureaucracy, Cabal, Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Charles Cooley, Clan, Clique, Club (organization), Collective narcissism, Community, Construction worker, Corporate group, Country club, Crew, Crowd, Crowd psychology, Division of labour, Dunbar's number, Dyad (sociology), English-speaking world, Ethology, Family, Formality, Free Press (publisher), Gang, Group cohesiveness, Group conflict, Group dynamics, Group emotion, Group home, Group selection, Group size measures, Harper (publisher), High IQ society, Home, Household, Hypertension, Identity (social science), In-group favoritism, Individual, Ingroups and outgroups, Institution, Interdependence, Interest (emotion), ..., Intimate relationship, Judge–advisor system, Kinship, Leadership, Level of analysis, Macmillan Publishers, Megachurch, Microsoft interview, Minimal group paradigm, Musical ensemble, Muzafer Sherif, Myocardial infarction, Ochlocracy, Organization, Peer group, Posse comitatus, Primary and secondary groups, Proselytism, Rebellion, Reference group, Roommate, Routledge, Secret society, Self-categorization theory, Self-concept, Short-term memory, Social class, Social identity approach, Social identity theory, Social organization, Social relation, Social representation, Social science, Social structure, Society, Squad, Status group, Stepfamily, Team, The Circumplex Model of Group Tasks, Triad (sociology), Tribe, University of Chicago Press, Value (ethics). Expand index (44 more) »

Academic probation

Academic probation in the United Kingdom is a period served by a new academic staff member at a university or college when they are first given their job.

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Administrative Behavior

Administrative Behavior: a Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization is a book written by Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001).

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Aggression

Aggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual.

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Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a disease in which the inside of an artery narrows due to the build up of plaque.

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Average

In colloquial language, an average is a middle or typical number of a list of numbers.

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Band society

A band society, or horde, is the simplest form of human society.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group.

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Cabal

A cabal is a small group of people united in some close design, usually to promote their private views of or interests in an ideology, state, or other community, often by intrigue and usually unbeknownst to those outside their group.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

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Charles Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Clique

A clique (AusE, CanE, or), in the social sciences, is a group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests.

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Club (organization)

A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal.

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Collective narcissism

Collective narcissism (or group narcissism) extends the concept of individual narcissism onto the social level of self.

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Community

A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.

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Construction worker

A construction worker is a tradesperson, laborer, or professional employed in the physical construction of the built environment and its infrastructure.

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Corporate group

A corporate group or group of companies is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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Crew

A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization.

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Crowd

A crowd is a large group of people that are gathered or considered together.

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Crowd psychology

Crowd psychology, also known as mob psychology, is a branch of social psychology.

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Division of labour

The division of labour is the separation of tasks in any system so that participants may specialize.

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Dunbar's number

Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.

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Dyad (sociology)

In sociology, a dyad (from Greek δύο dýo, "two" or Sanskrit दयाद "Dayadaha") is a group of two people, the smallest possible social group.

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English-speaking world

Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first language.

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Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Formality

A formality is an established procedure or set of specific behaviors and utterances, conceptually similar to a ritual although typically secular and less involved.

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Free Press (publisher)

Free Press was a book publishing imprint of Simon & Schuster.

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Gang

A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.

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Group cohesiveness

Group cohesiveness (also called group cohesion and social cohesion) arises when bonds link members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole.

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Group conflict

Group conflict, or hostilities between different groups, is a feature common to all forms of human social organization (e.g., sports teams, ethnic groups, nations, religions, gangs), and also occurs in social animals.

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Group dynamics

Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (intragroup dynamics), or between social groups (intergroup dynamics).

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Group emotion

Group emotion refers to the moods, emotions and dispositional affects of a group of people.

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Group home

A group home is a private residence model of medical care for those with complex health needs.

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Group selection

Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the more conventional level of the individual.

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Group size measures

Many animals, including humans, tend to live in groups, herds, flocks, bands, packs, shoals, or colonies (hereafter: groups) of conspecific individuals.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.

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High IQ society

A high IQ society is an organization that limits its membership to people who have attained a specified score on an IQ test.

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Home

A home, or domicile, is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, family, household or several families in a tribe.

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Household

A household consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and also share meals or living accommodation, and may consist of a single family or some other grouping of people.

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Hypertension

Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

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Identity (social science)

In psychology, identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social category or social group).

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In-group favoritism

In-group favoritism, sometimes known as in-group–out-group bias, in-group bias, or intergroup bias, is a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members.

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Individual

An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity.

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Ingroups and outgroups

In sociology and social psychology, an ingroup is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member.

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Institution

Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior".

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Interdependence

Interdependence is the mutual reliance between two or more groups.

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Interest (emotion)

Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process.

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Intimate relationship

An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.

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Judge–advisor system

A judge–advisor system (JAS) is a type of advice structure often studied in advice taking research, a subset of decision-making in the social sciences.

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Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.

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Leadership

Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.

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Level of analysis

The term "level of analysis" is used in the social sciences to point to the location, size, or scale of a research target.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Megachurch

A megachurch is a Christian church having 2,000 or more people in average weekend attendance.

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Microsoft interview

The Microsoft interview is a job interview technique used by Microsoft to assess possible future Microsoft employees.

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Minimal group paradigm

The minimal group paradigm is a methodology employed in social psychology.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Muzafer Sherif

Muzafer Sherif (born Muzaffer Şerif Başoğlu; July 29, 1906 – October 16, 1988) was a Turkish-American social psychologist.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Ochlocracy

Ochlocracy (ὀχλοκρατία, okhlokratía; ochlocratia) or mob rule is the rule of government by mob or a mass of people, or, the intimidation of legitimate authorities.

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Organization

An organization or organisation is an entity comprising multiple people, such as an institution or an association, that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

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Peer group

In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests (homophily), age, background, or social status.

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Posse comitatus

Posse comitatus is the common-law or statute law authority of a county sheriff, or other law officer, to conscript any able-bodied man to assist him in keeping the peace or to pursue and arrest a felon, similar to the concept of the "hue and cry." Originally found in English common law, it is generally obsolete; however, it survives in the United States, where it is the law enforcement equivalent of summoning the militia for military purposes.

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Primary and secondary groups

The distinction between Primary and Secondary groups serves to identify between two orders of social organization through analysis of the group relationships and their nature.

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Proselytism

Proselytism is the act of attempting to convert people to another religion or opinion.

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Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.

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Reference group

A reference group is a group to which an individual or another group is compared.

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Roommate

A roommate is a person with whom one shares a living facility such as a room or dormitory without being family or romantically involved.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Secret society

A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed from non-members.

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Self-categorization theory

Self-categorization theory is a theory in social psychology that describes the circumstances under which a person will perceive collections of people (including themselves) as a group, as well as the consequences of perceiving people in group terms.

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Self-concept

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself.

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Short-term memory

Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding, but not manipulating, a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Social identity approach

The term social identity approach refers to research and theory pertaining to two intertwined, but distinct, social psychological theories.

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Social identity theory

Social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group.

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Social organization

In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups.

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Social relation

In social science, a social relation or social interaction is any relationship between two or more individuals.

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Social representation

A social representation is a stock of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities.

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Social science

Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.

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Social structure

In the social sciences, social structure is the patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals.

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Society

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

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Squad

In military terminology, a squad or squadron is a sub-subunit led by a non-commissioned officer that is subordinate to an infantry platoon.

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Status group

The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) formulated a three-component theory of stratification that defines a status group (also status class and status estate) as a group of people who, within a society, can be differentiated on the basis of non-economic qualities such as honour, prestige, ethnicity, race and religion.

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Stepfamily

A stepfamily, blended family, or bonus family is a family where at least one parent has children that are not genetically related to the other spouse or partner.

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Team

A team is a group of individuals working together to achieve a goal.

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The Circumplex Model of Group Tasks

The Circumplex Model is a graphical representation of emotional states.

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Triad (sociology)

Triad refers to a group of three people in sociology.

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Tribe

A tribe is viewed developmentally, economically and historically as a social group existing outside of or before the development of states.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.

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Value (ethics)

In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_group

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