A group is a collection of individuals who share something in comon and interact with each other. This photo is a group of four individuals who are relating and interacting with eachother, I am not sure what they share in common. The fact that they are all three students perhaps?
An aggregate is a collection of people who inhabit a physical location but do not have lasting social relations. This aggregate is a group of people sitting at a stop light together, although they are in the same location they will most likely not call eachother the following day.
Secondary groups are generally organized around an activity. This secondary group is a local track team, they are all practicing to accomplish a certain goal but they do not necessarily identify with one another.
A dyad is the smallest form of a social group. It contains only two members and is unstable because if one person leaves the group, the group all together no longer exists. These two boys form a dyad, if one left the other it would no longer be a group, it would be an individual.
A triad is a social group made up of three individuals. A triad is slightly more stable than a dyad because any conflict between two members can be mediated by the third member. This triad is more stable than a dyad because if the couple to the left get into a fight the individual to the right can mediate.
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