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Social groups are people who interact based on shared circumstances, situation, place, goals, identity, goodwill, affection or trust. This is an extremely broad term that includes temporary groups that may last minutes all the way up to durable institutions that may last centuries with a deep sense of collective identity and purpose. The following are common examples of social groups.
Art Scenes | Assemblies | Boards | Bureaucracies | Business Associations | Charities | Classmates | Cliques | Clubs | Collectives | Commissions | Committees | Communities | Corporations | Councils | Couples | Crews | Crowds | Cultural Groups | Departments | Ethnicities | Families | Fandom | Fashion Scenes | Fellowships | Fraternities | Friends | Guilds | Herds | Households | Housemates | Mobs | Musical Artists (Bands) | Nationalities | Neighborhood Associations | Neighbors | Organizations | Panels | Peer Groups | Performance Troupes | Political Organizations | Professional Organizations | Relatives | Religious Congregations | Schools | Small Businesses | Social Movements | Society | Socioeconomic Classes | Sororities | Sports Teams / Leagues | Subcultures | Super Cultures | Swarms | Teams | Total Institutions | Tribes | Unions | Ventures | Volunteer Groups |
Herds and swarms apply mostly to animals but these terms are sometimes applied to people as an analogy.A total institution is a social system that governs every aspect of life such as a prison or a rigid paternalistic society.|
Type | | Definition | Two or more people who interact based on shared circumstances, situation, place, goals, identity, goodwill, affection or trust. | Related Concepts | |
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