people sharing some social relation

it depends on the individual and the particular social group under discussion as to whether we primarily identify ourselves through association with social groups.

至于我们是否主要通过与社会群体的联系而来表明我们的身份，这取决于个人以及所涉及的特定社会群体。

social group complexity did not predict the uniqueness of each voice, but the size of the groups did.

社会群体的复杂程度与个体声音的独特性没有什么关联，但群体的大小却有关系。

i also arranged for getting positive feedback on my progress, reporting to a social group for accountability, and rewarding myself.

我还对自己的进步得到积极反馈做了準备，向一个社会团体汇报说明，奖励自己。

this is the authors「 third such networking study suggesting that the social group is a powerful super-organism that wields much influence over individuals」 well-being.

这是这些作者第三篇关于社会群体是影响个人健康的重要因素的研究。

a person may join a social group because he or she thinks that the people that belong to this type of group are the same as he or she, whether it is true or not.

一个人之所以加入某一社会群体，可能是因为他（她）认为属于这一群体的那些人与他（她）相同，无论这是真还是假。

he even goes as far as to say that anyone who claims to have more than 150 real friendships is 「suspect, 」 as the quality of the relationships deteriorates as the social group expands.

他甚至推断，那些宣称自己拥有超过150个朋友的人所说的话值得怀疑，因为随着社交团体的扩大，其关系的质量也随之下降了。

oh god no,and god help you,a roman catholic, so the stronger the walls between your group and outsiders, the more sectarian your social group is.

当然不行了，上帝只允许你找个罗马天主教徒，所以你们的团体和外界的墻越厚，你们这个社会团体就越教派主义。

social group complexity did not predict the uniqueness of each voice, but the size of the groups did. the larger the social group, the more distinctive the voices were.

社会群体的复杂程度与个体声音的独特性没有什么关联，但群体的大小却有关系。社会群体越大，声音的独特性就越强。

but japan「s most haunted social group is the 「firefly tribe」: harried businessmen who escape their wife and bawling baby by smoking alone on the balcony of their apartment blocks at night.

但日本最常见的社会群体是「萤火虫部落」：晚上躲开妻子和哭闹的婴儿、在自家公寓住宅的阳台上独自吸烟的苦恼商人。

any industry, social group or even geographical region of people have their good and their bad.

任何行业，社会团体甚或地区的人们都有自己的优缺点。

michael beecher, a professor of psychology and biology at the university of washington, developed the hypothesis in the 1980」s that social group size predicts individual differences.

华盛顿大学心理学和生物学教授麦克·比彻（michaelbeecher）在20世纪80年代建立了一种假说，认为社会群体的大小与个体的区别有关。

it can be even worse to be stuck inside a social group that doesn’t respect you, forces you to conform or discourages you from making improvements in your life.

甚至它会让你在社交团体中陷入窘境，不受人尊敬。迫使你遵守或者阻止你在生活中得到提高。

but there are two different aspects of this issue involved: identifying oneself with a social group for its social implications and identifying oneself with a social group for internal needs.

但这个问题涉及两个方面：基于某一社会群体的社会含义而认同该群体，以及出于某些内在需要而认同某一社会群体。

framily is a new social group underpinned by the principle that good friends are the family we can choose for ourselves.

framily是一个新兴的社会群体，表达的理念为「好朋友是我们自己可以选择的家庭」。

virtually every social group has its own political party, if not several.

看起来每一个社会团体都拥有自己的一个或几个政党。

gypsies and travellers are the only social group that it is still acceptable to insult.

吉普赛和流浪者是唯一仍然接受这种侮辱的社会团体。

female chimpanzees, for instance, typically leave their social group once they hit maturity.

例如，雌性黑猩猩，一到成年，通常离开她们的社会群体。

people that belong to these groups do not necessarily belong to any one social group for identification purposes; it may be only a matter of convenience.

属于这些群体的人并非必定出于认同的目的而属于任一社会群体。这可能只是一种权宜之计而已。