Groups can appear at any time and for many different reasons, they can be temporary, they can be made up of a varying number of members. Sometimes a crowd can become a group. A crowd, according to Zeepedia, is “a temporary cluster of individuals who may or may not interact at all. They are too transitory, and are too impersonal.” A crowd becomes a group if they have a common goal, for example if they all want to cross the street, then the people gathered at the sidewalk waiting for the signal that they can cross become a group. Once they have crossed the street, the group gets dissolved because each person goes their own way.
A person can belong to many groups, for example the group of your Math class, or a sports team. There are several types of groups and here I will explain the definitions that Chapman wrote in his book.
By: Mónica Daniela García
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