SOCIAL GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social group mean? 

• SOCIAL GROUP (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL GROUP has 1 sense:

1. people sharing some social relation

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People sharing some social relation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("social group" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social group"):

force (a group of people having the power of effective action)

wing (a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function)

Jewry (Jews collectively)

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

folk; tribe (a social division of (usually preliterate) people)

moiety (one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe)

form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)

nonalignment; nonalinement (people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty)

subculture (a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs)

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups)

revolving door (an organization or institution with a high rate of turnover of personnel or membership)

platoon (a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity)

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

phylum ((linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related)

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

congregation; faithful; fold (a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church)

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

fringe (a social group holding marginal or extreme views)

kith (your friends and acquaintances)

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)

interest; interest group ((usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims)

sector (a social group that forms part of the society or the economy)

minority (a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part)

society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)

 Context examples 

A social group characterized by a distinctive social and cultural tradition that is maintained from generation to generation.

(Ethnic Group, NCI Thesaurus)

A meerkat’s place within the social group shapes the mortality risks it faces.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)

It appears that a friend or your membership in a professional or social group will be the trigger to bring you a day of outstanding good fortune.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A social group characterized by a distinctive social and cultural tradition maintained from generation to generation, a common history and origin and a sense of identification with the group; members of the group have distinctive features in their way of life, shared experiences and often a common genetic heritage; these features may be reflected in their experience of health and disease.

(CDISC SDTM Ethnic Group Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Ethnicity - an arbitrary classification of the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a complex of cultural, biological, geographical and other factors such as linguistic, dietary and religion traditions; ancestry, background, allegiance, or association; and physical characteristics traditionally associated with race.

(Ethnicity, NCI Thesaurus)