social group vs tribe

tribe vs social group

social group and tribe both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
social group	Yes	No	No	No
tribe	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tribe is a hyponym of social group; that is, tribe is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than social group:

social group: people sharing some social relation
tribe: group of people related by blood or marriage

Other hyponyms of social group include body, society, minority, sector, interest, interest group, clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, kith, fringe, assemblage, gathering, congregation, faithful, fold, organisation, organization, phylum, force, platoon, revolving door, band, circle, lot, set, gangdom, gangland, organized crime, subculture, nonalignment, nonalinement, form of government, political system, moiety, folk, front, movement, social movement, Jewry, wing, fanbase, risk group.

social group (noun)	tribe (noun)
people sharing some social relation	a social division of (usually preliterate) people
	a federation (as of American Indians)
	group of people related by blood or marriage
	(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

Difference between social group and tribe

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