Social groups

Aristocracy (; ) is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. thumb|The Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk|6th Duke of Norfolk, a 17th-century English aristocrat and politician who held the hereditary office of [[Earl Marshal of England]] Across Europe, the aristocracy exercised immense economic, political, and social influence. In Western Christian countries, the aristocracy was mostly equal with magnates, also known as the titled or higher nobility, however the members of the more numerous social class, the untitled lower nobilit

two or more humans who interact with one another

thumb|A crowd of people returning from a show of fireworks spills into the street stopping traffic at the intersection of Fulton Street (Manhattan)|Fulton Street and Gold Street in [[Lower Manhattan]] thumb|A crowd watches the Battle of the Beach 2 – Far Rockaway Skatepark – September, 2019 thumb|A crowd leaves the Vienna (WMATA station)|Vienna station on the [[Washington Metro in 2006.]] A crowd is a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent. Examples are a demonstration, a sports event, or a looting (classified in sociology as an acting crowd). A crowd may also simply

thumb|300px|"Evening Party" by Vladimir Makovsky (1897). Three generations of Russian intelligentsia discuss current issues. The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. Conceptually, the intelligentsia status class arose in the late 18th century, during the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Etymologically,

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In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.

Elitism is the notion that individuals who form an elite—a select group with desirable qualities such as intellect, wealth, power, fame, physical attractiveness, notability, special skills, experience, lineage—are more likely to be constructive to society and deserve greater influence or authority. The term elitism may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people. Beliefs that are in opposition to elitism include egalitarianism, anti-intellectualism (against powerful institutions perceived to be controlled by elites), populism, and t

visible dominant group that holds power or authority in a nation or organization

gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for fundraising

bonding between members of a group

social class

thumb|Six people pushing a van thumb|U.S. Navy sailors hauling in a mooring line thumb|A U.S. Navy rowing team thumb|A group of people forming a strategy thumb|A group of people collaborating Teamwork is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in an effective and efficient way. Teamwork is seen within the framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal.

right|thumb|275px|Crew of a spacecraft ([[Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-112, 2002)]] A crew is a body or a group of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company.

marital status; person not in a marital relationship

minority group differentiated by its sexual orientation, and often also including non-cisgender identities

In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; : gentes ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same nomen gentilicium and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens, sometimes identified by a distinct cognomen, was called a stirps (: stirpes). The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italia during the period of the Roman Republic. Much of individuals' social standing depended on the gens to which they belonged. Certain gentes were classified as patrician, others as plebeian; some had both patrician and plebeian branches. The importance of the gen

social group that advocates hatred or violence towards members of a race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other group

thumb|Beat, Beat, Beat (1959) by William F. Brown (writer)|William F. Brown

A clique (AusE, CanE, or ; ), in the social sciences, is a small group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests rather than include others. Interacting with cliques is part of normative social development regardless of gender, ethnicity, or popularity. Although cliques are most commonly studied during adolescence and middle childhood development, they exist in all age groups. They are often bound together by shared social characteristics such as ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Examples of common or stereotypical adolescent cliques include athletes, nerds, an

thumb|right|250px|Two samosely in 2007 Samosely (; ; , ) are residents of the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone surrounding the most heavily contaminated areas near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus and Ukraine. In Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian the semosel is a generic reference to these who settle without an official approval or permission.

business magnate of great political influence

persons with bodily characteristics, mainly skin color, that differ from Eurocentric standards; term used in the United States to refer to people whose historical homeland is not Europe

colonial populations who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony and from the metropolitan homeland of an empire

minority group that holds a disproportionate amount of power

person who is systematically discriminated against within a state

business oligarchs after Ukrainian independence in 1991

Canadian government notion of non-white people who are also not aboriginal

'''''', French for "half-world" is a 19th-century term to describe women on the fringes of respectable society, particularly courtesans supported by wealthy lovers. The term originally derives from an 1855 play called by Alexandre Dumas , which depicted how prostitution challenged the institution of marriage.

sexually active "alpha male"

post-Roman European social class; a formally defined class of governing upper classes found in metropolitan areas (Venice, Florence, Genoa, Amalfi) and Free cities of Germany (Nuremberg, Ravensburg, Augsburg, Konstanz, Lindau, Bern, Basel, Zurich)

view that a group that achieves a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population at large

300px|thumb| in the Belgian Congo studying [[medicine in Medical School of Yakusu Hospital, near Kisangani.]] In the Belgian and French colonial empires, an '''''' (, 'evolved one' or 'developed one') was an African who had been Europeanised through education and assimilation and had accepted European values and patterns of behaviour. spoke French and followed European rather than indigenous laws, usually held white-collar jobs (though rarely higher than clerks), and lived primarily in urban areas.

subculture

polemic term for the ruling class of Soviet-type states

Wigger, also wigga, whigger and whigga, is a term for white people who emulate the mannerisms, language, and fashions that are generally stereotypically associated with African-American culture, particularly hip hop/rap culture. The word is a portmanteau of "white nigger".

model of group development first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965

tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers

London-based group of young aristocrats and socialites in the 20th century

accommodation for students connected to a school

A teenybopper is a young teenager, typically a girl, who follows adolescent trends in music, fashion, and culture. The term may have been coined by marketing professionals and psychologists, later becoming a subculture of its own. The term was introduced in the 1950s to refer to teenagers who mainly listened to popular music and/or rock and roll and not much else. Teenybopper became widely used again in the late 1960s and early 1970s, following an increase in the marketing of pop music, teen idols and fashions aimed specifically at younger girls, generally 10–15 years old.

people who gathered in cafes and restaurants

Minority whose main occupations link producers and consumers

Obrazovanshchina (, 'educationdom', 'educaties', 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.

US slang term