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Group dynamics
Group dynamics: the study of processes within social groups, including conflict, cohesion, conformity, influence, and decision making. Founded as a field by Kurt Lewin's Research Center for Group Dynamics (MIT, 1945), distinct from intergroup relations and organizational behavior.
Group home
A group home is a residential facility where a small number of unrelated people live together with staff supervision, providing 24-hour care as an alternative to large institutions.
Group marriage
Group marriage is a marriage form in which multiple men and multiple women form one recognized marital household, distinct from polygyny and polyandry. Best-known case: the Oneida Community's complex marriage (1848–1881). Rare cross-culturally; defined in classic ethnography and Constantine's 1971 glossary.
Group sex
Group sex: sexual encounters involving three or more participants, also called collective or group sexual activity. Distinct from swinging, polyamory, and chemsex; US lifetime prevalence under 8%; studied mainly as an HIV/STI risk environment.
Groupthink
Groupthink, coined by Yale psychologist Irving Janis in the 1960s-1970s, is a cohesive group's drive for consensus that overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives; later research revised the model toward norms and process losses.
Grover Krantz
Grover Sanders Krantz (1931-2002), American physical anthropologist at Washington State University and expert on hominoid evolution, the first credentialed academic to study Bigfoot scientifically, proposing a Gigantopithecus origin for Sasquatch.
GROW model
GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will/Way Forward): a four-stage coaching framework developed in 1980s UK by John Whitmore, Graham Alexander, and Alan Fine from Gallwey's Inner Game, first published in Whitmore's 1992 Coaching for Performance; the most widely used coaching conversation structure, with derived variants CIGAR, CLEAR, IGROW, TGROW, and OSKAR.
Guanches
The Guanches were the Amazigh (Berber) indigenous people of the Canary Islands, settled from North Africa, isolated without seafaring, conquered by Castile 1402-1496, with 16-31% ancestry surviving in modern Canarians.
Guaraní people
Guaraní: indigenous Tupi-Guarani-speaking people (self-name Awá) of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia; subgroups Mbyá, Kaiowá, Ñandeva, Ava Guaraní; ~280,000 people, official language in Paraguay since 1992.
Guatemalans
Guatemalans, also known as the Guatemalan people, are the people of Guatemala, about 18.7 million in 2025, mostly Ladino and Maya, with a large diaspora in the United States.
Guide dog
Guide dog: also called seeing eye dog, a dog trained to help blind or low-vision people navigate, with origins in 1916 Oldenburg, IGDF standards, and robotic guide dog research.
Guilt (emotion)
Guilt is a self-conscious moral emotion about a specific wrongdoing, distinct from shame, which targets the self; it motivates apology and repair, predicts better outcomes than shame-proneness, and shows measurable neural and cross-cultural correlates.
Guinness family
The Guinness family, an Anglo-Irish Protestant brewing dynasty founded by Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), who leased Dublin's St. James's Gate Brewery in 1759; seven generations led the brewery before the 1997 Diageo merger, while gaining earldoms and philanthropic fame.
Gujarati Muslims
Gujarati Muslims, Muslims of Gujarat state in western India, including Bohra, Khoja, and Memon trading castes; about 9-10% of the state population, largely urban, marked by the 2002 violence and Sachar Committee findings.
Gujarati people (ગુજરાતી લોકો)
Gujarati people (ગુજરાતી લોકો) are the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Gujarat, western India, speakers of Gujarati, named after the Gurjar settlers of the 5th century CE, with a major trading diaspora in East Africa, Britain, and North America.
Gulamgiri
Gulamgiri (गुलामगिरी, "Slavery") is an 1873 Marathi book by Jyotirao Phule that equates the caste system with slavery and became the foundational text of the Satyashodhak Samaj.
Gullah
Gullah (Geechee) refers to African American people of the coastal Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans who created the Gullah creole language and retained strong African traditions; Congress designated the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor in 2006.
Guna people
Guna (Dule, formerly Kuna), Indigenous people of Panama's Caribbean Guna Yala archipelago (formerly San Blas); won autonomy through the 1925 Guna Revolution and Republic of Tule; matrilineal society, mola textiles, comarca self-government, 2024 Gardi Sugdub climate relocation.
Gurjar
Gurjar (Gujjar, Gujar) community of northern India and Pakistan, pastoralist origin, linked to the medieval Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty; Scheduled Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, OBC in other states, with an active reservation movement in Rajasthan.
Gurjars in Kashmir
The Gurjars, also spelled Gujjars, are a Muslim, Gojri-speaking community of Jammu and Kashmir and the region's largest Scheduled Tribe, with many historically practicing transhumance between Pir Panjal pastures.
Gurjars in Punjab
Gurjars in Punjab: the Gurjar (Gujjar) ethnic community of Indian and Pakistani Punjab, historically pastoral and agricultural, recorded at 2,038,692 in the 1931 census, with place names Gujrat, Gujranwala, and Gujar Khan derived from the tribe.
Gurleen Maan
Gurleen Maan, born 1988, is a Canadian farmer and reality television personality who helps run her family's Maan Farms in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and was runner-up on The Traitors Canada in 2023.
Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967), USAF lieutenant colonel and one of NASA's Mercury Seven; second American in space aboard Liberty Bell 7 (1961), commander of Gemini III (1965), and Apollo 1 commander killed in the January 27, 1967 launch pad fire.
Gusii people
The Gusii (Abagusii, Kisii) are a Bantu people of Kisii and Nyamira counties, western Kenya, speaking Ekegusii (zone E42), settled in the Kisii highlands around 1800, farming tea, coffee, and soapstone carving.
Guttman scale
A Guttman scale is a cumulative scaling method in psychometrics, created by Louis Guttman in 1944, in which endorsing a stronger item implies endorsing all weaker ones.
Guy Strait
Guy Strait (Elmer Guy Strait, 1920-1987), "The Porno King," was a San Francisco gay activist and publisher who founded the League for Civil Education, launched the city's first gay newspaper LCE News in 1961, and was later imprisoned in Illinois in the 1970s on charges involving minors.
Guyanese people
Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana and their diaspora, formed by Amerindian, African, Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, and European ancestry; six ethnic groups, English-speaking, roughly half living abroad.
Gweilo (鬼佬)
Gweilo (鬼佬, gwai2 lou2) is Cantonese slang for a white man, literally "ghost man" or "foreign devil", dating to 16th-century Pearl River Delta contact; widely used in Hong Kong and ruled not inherently derogatory in a 2022 discrimination case.
Gwen Walz
Gwen Walz (nee Whipple) is Minnesota's 39th first lady, a 29-year public school educator, first gubernatorial spouse with a Capitol office, Bard Prison Initiative supporter, and 2024 Democratic campaign surrogate.
Gwichʼin
Gwichʼin: Dene (Athabaskan) people of the Mackenzie Delta, northern Yukon, and northeast Alaska, also called Loucheux. Known for the 1992 Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, ongoing self-government talks, and defense of the Porcupine caribou herd.