What is a summary term? I’d like to say that people can be nested in groups but then can be combined against everyone.

Some examples to illustrate:

• Students are nested within classes (groups), which in turn are nested within a school (?).
• As a sophomore at a junior college, students are nested in sorority chapters and often in their sorority (?) groups. Each other is their Sorority sorority chapter. How is this done?
• Employees are nested in departments (groups), which in turn are nested within an organization (?).

I can summarize classes, departments, and sorority chapters with the summary term “group”.

I have tried summarizing schools, sororities, and organizations with the summary terms “collective” and “society” yet I am not satisfied with either.

• Suffice it to say “Collective” seems to imply a common goal. While departments often pursue the same goal (e.g. hiring) and have similar capabilities (e.g., marketing, HR) of one thing, others often don’t have a common focus. For example: To recruit new workers, something has to be done and everyone must understand how to work together). , improve company performance), I feel the word “collective” draws away attention from the fact that departments may also have competing interests. (Production) I am so looking for a neutral term as opposed to “collective”.

• “A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations” (pt. 3). I am just now able to put myself on the record. In my own opinion all people I could talk to would find it confusing to refer to an organization as a society.

Edit No. 1: I am hoping to find a term that is intuitive and descriptive. Can one get a sample with one word each? I find that collective has an intuitive meaning (collection of items/people). I like super groups, but I feel this term does not convey the same intuitively graspable description for people who never encountered this term in mathematics.

Edit 3. What should all a subgroup look like? I would like to begin at a group level and find an overarching term from there (rather than go from group to subgroup).