Aggregate: An aggregate is a crowd or gathering of people who share a common physical location, where as they might not have anything else in common other than that. They do not recognise that they are in a group.
Primary Group: The primary group is people who you are closely related to like your family or close friends. It involves face to face contact and deep feelings of belonging.
Secondary Group: The secondary group is larger and less personalized. They are designed to fulfill a task or get something dones. A good example would be a football team.
Bureaucracy: Is a type of secondary group that is specifically designed to perform tasks eficiently. they are characterized by Weber's 6 charactaristics of a bureaucracy. They can be a machine with human components that is rational and dehumanized. George Ritzer coined "Mcdonaldization" to describe the efficiency and dehumanization.
Triad: Is a small group made up of three people. There are three people to have conflict with and the group can be mediated. The groups stability increases because if one person leaves the group can still exist but each time you increase a member, it is at the expense of intimacy.
Diad: A diad is the smallest possible group, consisting of only two members. They are the most intense intimately, but they are also the most unstable because if one person leaves the group it is over. They share everything in what is called Dyadic withdrawal.
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