Everything about Action Group totally explained
In
sociology and
anthropology, an
action group or
task group is a group of people joined temporarily to accomplish some task or take part in some organized collective action.
As an example, imagine that in a hypothetical
culture, four
bridesmaids are traditionally selected to play a role in a
wedding ceremony, and eligibility to be chosen as a bridesmaid is dependent on being a young, female relative of the
bride. Several people may fall into this
social category: they've no automatic entitlement to the role but are eligible to assume it if chosen. Most members of the category who could theoretically be bridesmaids at the wedding are not selected. There are no criteria relating to
kinship, age, or other such status that necessitate this, but for simpler reasons of practicality or chance four members of the category are chosen, and it's these who form the action group.
As the members of the action group are brought together on a single occasion and then disband, they can't be regarded as constituting a fully-fledged
social group, for which they'd need to interact recurrently in accordance with their
social identities.
In Latin American context
In Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, the word "action group" (
grupo de acción) was given to violent activists who gathered together to perform violent guerrilla activities for example (see
Antonio Guiteras,
Fidel Castro,
Emilio Tro,
Lauro Blanco and
Rolando Masferrer when young university students)
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Commonly regarded as gang-related killing there were said to have been 200 of these killings in the Grau administration alone.
(Martin, Lionel.
The Early Fidel: Roots of Castro's Communism. 1978. Lyle Stuart, Secaucus New Jersey; 1st ed, p. 25). ISBN 0-8184-0254-7.
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