Importance Of Groups In Society

When you look around yourself what type of relations do you find? If you are a student, you have friends of your age. If you are a professional then people of different age groups come in contact with you. You are somebody’s parent or brother / sister or friend. All these are examples of social settings in which various groups function. It will be easy for you to think of family as a group. In fact, in any society, family is a basic group. Groups are very important part of our life. During our life time we live in different types of groups. Most of our activities involve groups. Groups have functional value for individuals as well as community and society. People form groups, parties, associations with certain goals. Today, groups as a mode of pursuing our goals, has become a common feature of our social life. In this way groups provides the foundation of our shared human nature.

10.2 Meaning of Individual differences
It is often said that no two individuals are exact duplicates; they differ from each other in some way or the other. Hence the job of the psychologist is to identify and understand this uniqueness in individuals. Such a similarity or difference between persons reveals individual differences. It happens in our day-to-day life when we see people around us. A question comes to mind; how and why people appear similar or different to each other? For example when we think about their physical appearance, we often ask ourselves why some people have dark or fair