Noun
people sharing some social relation
Source: WordNetThe Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group. William O. Douglas
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. Reinhold Niebuhr
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
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. George Herbert Mead
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert A. Heinlein
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations. Harold Rosenberg