"Authorities see us as another social group formed within the cradle of the revolution".
Surely, his team-mates – none of whom are particularly bright – will be threatened by Jake's mingling with another social group.
If he was right, you would expect something similar to happen if another social group — say, working-class whites — experienced a comparable loss of economic opportunity.
People are more likely to lie or cheat if others are lying or cheating, or if a member of another social group (such as a student wearing a sweatshirt from a rival university) visibly flouts the rules.
Played absolutely straight, and no doubt deriving from an exchange that the author himself had overhead in similar circumstances, this seems to show Waugh sympathising with another social group forced to deal with a collapse in traditional values, of which the Bright Young People were an all too conspicuous symbol.
Marginal Club members are those who have left one social group and are just joining another social group.
They may possess the same age as these other groups of individuals and their activities are contemporaneous, but the "vital contact" of one group of individuals who belong to a particular social setting does not necessarily interact with that of another social group, as their social worlds are different in space though not in time.
Again, "last place aversion" implies that if one social group gets equal treatment, another social group will pay the consequences.
There is another social group, that of the satellite males, which are mature bulls as yet without their own territories, who exploit resources, particularly mating opportunities, even in the presence of the dominant bull.
The predominance of friendly and colloquial comments (e.g., jokes, laughter) is another element distinguishing social groups from topical groups.
But there are more than a half-dozen distinct views about what the best principle is for drawing the distinction between acts of direct discrimination (in the moralized sense) and those acts that are not wrongful even though the agent takes account of another's social group membership.
