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  2. Types of social groups - Wikipedia

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    Clique: A group of people that have many of the same interests & commonly found in a high school/college setting; most of the time they have a name & rules for themselves. Club: A group that usually requires one to apply to become a member. Such clubs may be dedicated to particular activities: sporting clubs, for example. Cabal: A group of ...

  3. Dyad (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Dyad means two things of similar kind or nature or group and dyadic communication means the inter-relationship between the two. In practice, this relationship refers to dialogic relations or face-to-face verbal communication between two people involving their mutual ideas, thought, behavior, ideals, liking, disliking, and the queries and answers concerning life and living in nature.

  4. Family - Wikipedia

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    Family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. [1] Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. [2]

  5. Dyad - Wikipedia

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    Dyad (philosophy), used by the Pythagoreans for the number two, representing "twoness" or "otherness" Dyad (sociology) , a group of two people Grizzled Young Veterans , also known as The Dyad, a British professional wrestling tag team

  6. Sociology of the family - Wikipedia

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    The nurses were almost exclusively women and the doctors were almost exclusively men. This group had a number of choices about work hours and their ability to utilize family-friendly workplace policies. The two class-disadvantaged groups were female nursing assistants (CNAs) and male emergency medical technicians (EMTs). The class-disadvantaged ...

  7. Triad (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    A dyad is a group of two people that interact while a triad is another person added on to create more communicational interactions. [2] For example: adding an extra person, therefore creating a triad, this can result in different language barriers, personal connection, and an overall impression of the third person.

  8. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  9. Family (U.S. census) - Wikipedia

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    A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family."