Social group

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

Quotes

• The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.
  • William O. Douglas. Dissenting, Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388, 406 (1960)

• When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range.
  • Leon Festinger and John Thibaut. "Interpersonal communication in small groups." The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 46.1 (1951): 92.

• All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) p. 3

• Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.
  • Pitirim Sorokin (1927) Social Mobility, p. 12

• Every living thing loves its own kind,

and we all love someone like ourselves.

• Sirach 13:15 (New American Bible Revised Edition)

See also

• Community
• Elite
• Group process
• Family
• Groupthink