Social group

A  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)