Particular social group (PSG) is one of five categories that may be used to claim refugee status according to two key United Nations documents: the 1951...

In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively...

understandable only to members of an ingroup; that is, people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of shared interest. It is, therefore...

people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the imaginary has...

Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively"...

religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Even if an individual meets the criteria for asylum, INA § 208...

selections as other people, this is seen as a way to gain access to a particular social group. An example of this is fashion trends wherein the increasing popularity...

limited to Western sources Social imaginary is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group Religious values reflect...

religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership of a particular social group. Economic migrants are generally not eligible for asylum, unless...

languages are viewed as more suited for a particular social group, setting, or topic more so than others. Social factors like class, religion, gender, and...

Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (intragroup dynamics), or between social groups (intergroup...

spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively...

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system...

social sciences, social groups can be categorized based on the various group dynamics that define social organization. In sociological terms, groups can...

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every...

constituted a membership of a particular social group. The RSAA held that homosexuality was a particular social group. The Authority was guided by writings...

and values in social life A body of ideas characteristic of a particular social group or class Ideas that help legitimate a dominant political power...

to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both. The word itself...

members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g. due process)...

account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. These recent migration movements are caused...

persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.” The film analyzes the US asylum process...

depends on a particular social approach where the main source of information is the participants' point of view and knowledge. To carry out a social experiment...

sexual acts. Scripts refer to social functions. They dictate what one should be doing at a particular time and in a particular place if one is to play the...

originator of the "class publication", a type of magazine focused on a particular social group or interest instead of targeting the largest possible readership...

a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own...

Social engineering is a term which has been used to mean top-down efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale—most...

Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion or social cohesion, is the degree or strength of bonds linking members of a social group to one another...

Austro-Hungarian Empire or the United States. Current topics are in particular social and cultural differentiation, multilingualism, competing identity...

in social psychology that describes the circumstances under which a person will perceive collections of people (including themselves) as a group, as...

because of their involvement in a particular social group. This requirement means that membership to a social group is not enough in order to claim asylum...