Understanding Groups

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Your family sitting down to dinner. A group of coworkers sitting down for a drink at the end of a shift. Six exasperated parents sitting in a doctor’s office with sick kids. Each of these examples involves multiple people engaged in some activity—and most of us would probably say that these are examples of “groups of people.” But are they really groups? We’ll explore what it means to be in a group, in addition to what types of groups exist and how those groups develop.