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What Do You Understand By Social Groups?

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What Do You Understand By Social Groups?
Q.1) what do you understand by social groups? (Define, describe and discuss)
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“A group is a set of people engaged in frequent interaction; they identify with one another; they are defined by others as a group’ they share values, beliefs and norms about areas of common interest; they define themselves as a group; they come together to work on common tasks and for agreed purposes” Any physical collection of people regardless of the size who share a common interest and works together in an organized patterns with a close relationships and interaction among them. A group is a collection of individuals but all collectivities cannot constitute a social group. A group is distinct from an aggregate member of which do not interact with one another. The essence of the social group is not physical closeness or contact between the individuals but a consciousness of joint interaction. And there are some issues in forming a social groups on how small or how big should the group be and why? Should all of them be together at the same
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Boljang village. In there, families became the grassroots groups in the community. In the families each and every of us knew and interact with each other’s every day. And we follow the same and single religion in my village i.e. Christianity. Every villagers used to gather and worshipped in the church 6, 7 times in a week. And I had many friends of my age in my villages. We used to interact with each other’s most of our times. And there is a private school of up to 10th standard where I get schooling up to my 10th standard. I loved ma classmates and social relations and social interaction is very good amongst my classmate’s. And all the above groups of families, religion, peer groups and classmates which exist in my community where I brought up came under “Natural” groups according to the formation/ classification of groups made by Toseland &

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