Define the following terms: (25 points)

a. Social Group
 Any grouping of two or more interacting people who recognize their relationship with
each other as a distinct social unit. Collection of people who interact with each other
and share similar characteristics and a sense of unity. Social group, has been used to
designate many kinds of aggregations of humans. Aggregations of two members and
aggregations that include the total.

b. Primary Group
 A group held together by intimate, face-to-face relationships, formed by family and
environmental associations and regarded as basic to social life and culture. Typically a
small social group whose members share close, personal, enduring relationships in
which one exchanges implicit items, such as love, caring, concern, animosity and
support.
c. Secondary Group
 A committee organized to plan a holiday party at work. Members of the committee
meet infrequently and for only a short period of time. Often have an organized
structure, an authority figure who oversees the rules, while primary groups are typically
informally organized.
d. Reference group
 A group to which an individual or another group is compared. It is the group to which
the individual relates or aspires to relate himself or herself psychologically. It becomes
the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences,
perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self. It is important for determining a person's self-
identity, attitudes, and social ties.
e. Network
 A collection of computers, servers, mainframes, network devices, peripherals, or other
devices connected to one another to allow the sharing of data. Consists of multiple
devices that communicate with one another. It can be as small as two computers or as
large as billions of devices.
f. In-group
 An exclusive, typically small, group of people with a shared interest or identity. A group
of people sharing similar interests and attitudes, producing feelings of solidarity,
community, and exclusivity.
g. Task interaction
 The unit of an entry of information by the user, such as entering a piece of text, issuing a
command, or specifying a 2D position. Task descriptions from our typology to those
derived from related work. While interaction-oriented group is to make opportunities
for social contacts or interaction.
h. Social aggregates
 A collection of people who are in the same place at the same time, but who otherwise
do not necessarily have anything in common, and who may not interact with each other.
A mere collection of individuals who are in a particular place at a particular time but
share no definite relations with one another passengers in a train.
 
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