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INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN GROUP-sociological

Human beings are social by nature and pro-active communicators. Its evolution from nomadic a sedentary lifestyle has been supported by the development of the languages that facilitated effective communication between them. This ability to play a crucial role in the formation of societies and civilizations created by the co-existing groups, both cooperation and competition with. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety traditions, rituals, ethics, values, social norms and laws that form the foundation of human society is but an aggregate of a variety of groups. The humans with their advanced cognitive abilities have revolutionized their own socio-technological progress would not have been possible without the support within the group. For Homo sapiens, communication is not just a way of life, but an obligation.

Human survival. Its relatively small size and groups, who overcame these shortcomings and survived. As a result of living together for centuries, humans have learned the art of making collective decisions and how to influence each other.

HUMAN Grouping and herd mentality:

As mentioned above, people tend to form groups or join them as a natural process. This group may be voluntary or involuntary. These groups can also be structured or unstructured. The type of group a person is a member also defines the person.

The coexistence in societies has long been that humans depend on the opinions of their own class, which has sociological / psychological foundations. The result has been studied under the appropriate academic discipline called "behavioral the group. "can be understood as" the behavior exhibited by the people as they interact within "large or small groups. The dynamic processes communication in a group tend to be different between people not connected. Training

One of the key outcomes of people living groups and societies for most of his life seems to have been organized the formation of "herd mentality." It can be described as how people influence and are influenced by their peers to adopt acceptable behavior and follow the popular trends. It implies a fear based reaction to pressure that makes individuals act in order to avoid feeling "left behind" group. This need to be part of "current" is a very strong factor that continues to influence the behavior of individuals.

The results of an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of Leeds, led by Prof. were given detailed instructions on where to walk. The scientists found that people end up blindly following one or two people who seem to know where van. The publication results showed that only 5% of what scientists called "informed individuals" to influence the direction of a crowd of about 200 people. The remaining 95% is without even realizing it. "There are clear parallels between animal grouping behavior," says Professor Krause, who reported their study with John Dyer in the Animal Behaviour Journal. "We've all been in situations in which we carried along by the crowd, but the interesting thing of this research is that our participants ended up making a consensus decision despite the fact that they were not allowed to talk or gesture to each other … In most Even without an organizer of top-down or any obvious rule, the company will be in place. (10)

Mark Earls (11) proposes that each individual makes what they do in large part because of what other people do or do not do (although our brain tells us otherwise). Mark Earls fact turns the idea of thinking then doing in your head do so because they simply do not really know. We like to think that individual decisions and choose our own behavior. However, the truth is that most of the time were strongly influenced by the behavior of those around us. It's a herd mentality.

As behavioral scientists been proposed, any behavior that is rewarded again be constantly reinforced and those who are not become extinct. The big no. of people who pay membership fees heavy for membership of exclusive clubs or gated communities are really want a part of "their kind of people." To be outside of these communities represents a loss reputation and support system.

Since social behavior seems to have been more thorough in humans over a period of time, there must obvious benefits of doing so. Some of the benefits can be highlighted as follows:

* Security

* Comfort of the decisions of the group and group responsibility

INTERNET AND SOCIAL NETWORKS:

It is a fact that has brought the Internet about a radical transformation in how we interact and communicate. When you open the possibilities of instant communication, which has affected our social life cultural and commercial behavior. The rapid exchange of information through online congregations has helped the Internet become a tool very powerful and pivot information, recreation and socialization. It has become a huge repository where people can find information, inspiration, minded people, communities and its partners faster than ever. New ideas, services, business models and technologies emerge and evolve at a speed giddy in this social media.

The explosive spread of Internet since the mid-1990s led to evolution as a robust platform and brought about technological advances. The advanced digital technology allowed people to create their own content, including images, words, video or audio on the Internet. This has been supported by the falling prices of computers, digital cameras, and access to high-speed Internet. Easy access and widespread availability of free or low cost editing software idiot-proof allows people to have a live blog site up and running in minutes of deciding to do so. In fact, among the defining characteristics of social media is the blurring of definitions, rapid innovation, reinvention and mash-ups. Many websites and software developers people to play with their services and reinvent them. Most of the content on these sites are generated by its own members. You can safely assume that b uild, wn O, O m temperate anagen these spaces is participation in a boom!

Social networking has made the world a smaller place therefore to make communications easier. With online people across continents and this has resulted in the instantaneous exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas. Upon leaving the network communities, virtual, social aggregations as has been the subject of their participation in the development and started to become an alternative to physical interactions. Today's powerful technologies allow one to do business in all continents, without any physical movement or have friends across the ocean without ever having met, creating far-reaching proposals business from two different continents and so on and so forth. Geographic distances are no longer an obstacle and fast becoming a myth.

As an extension social activities in the physical, online communities have expanded their reach and allowed people to reach those who otherwise might not have been accessible. Online social networks have evolved from its original purpose of being just virtual meeting places where people can interact with each other to become a

important platform for innovation. With the advent of a mobile platform increasingly stable, the development of location-based services and the adoption of mobile devices like smart phones by a wide variety of users, social networks have evolved from "pure-play" based applications hybrids web (and mobile web-based) applications and those that are based entirely on the mobile platform.

SOCIAL SHOPPING-the new mantra

While the world is flat and political boundaries become less annoying, emerging lifestyles, at least in metropolitan cities seem to have active social life threatening for many people. The pressures of work and shorter virulent combined with the ambition to succeed seem to have left little time energy with people to meet and mingle with friends and acquaintances from work. be social animals by nature, that possibly left a void in their lives. For all persons limited time or the desire for immediate results, social networks came as a blessing. One of the reasons for its success is being developed from the fact that it was a solution to address an inherent need exist.

The explosive growth of Internet and its use has increased, of course, allowed the total population in it for socializing and networking. The Internet is growing rapidly and its constant evolution has been forcing the development of technologies. modern web applications has allowed the incorporation of user-friendly yet cutting edge features. Driven by these new functionality, the web has become more affordable for the people and the people together as never before. The web is not a one way street, but corresponds more to the idea a main participatory Internet. The rapid growth of social networks and the successful concept to attract activities that once people are Orthodox by the central phenomenon transform "social web".

Due to the growing and active participation of its members, the Internet social services have gained enormous popularity in the last two years. The implementation of social networking sites like Orkut, Face book, Twitter, MySpace and media sites like Flickr, YouTube was relief for most people to open new avenues of interaction with other human beings and demonstrate the breadth of functionality of social networking sites. He has made friends known and accessible from anywhere in the social creation of an arc greater than ever. Millions of people logged in at a certain

point in time in search of his ambrosia social collective. It was not long before that these aggregations voluntary organizations identified as potential business opportunities. It was not the organizations that initiated social shopping, but was the result of the current need of the masses. Many people were discussing about the products on social sites significantly affecting the products or services. Peer reviews is being generated in large quantities and people licking. Left without interference or influence these reviews in the sacred space of the website of the organization was a cathartic experience for their customers. It was also the beginning of the integration process within the system. Thus, a modern shop visitors can recommend products, leave comments, rate sellers or publish wish lists. This phenomenon, called social commerce shopping or social leads to greater customer satisfaction and user involvement. Successful exploitation of the social shopping concept has led to a strong demand for innovative models social commerce and concepts such as crowd-sourcing, content generated by consumers, purchases live, etc

The combination of social activities with the decisions Purchase does not represent a paradigm shift, because the purchase has always been a social activity. For pre-internet generation too, go grocery shopping not only for essential purchase, but also to meet people. The market therefore has always been a place of convergence. Social shopping is just an extrapolation of the same, although the convergence in the network. A lay aggregate information about products, prices and offerings. "Shopping social concept makes sense as" information aggregation generated among peers has more credibility, since people tend to trust product recommendations from members of the community. The credibility of above experts when it comes to product recommendations (65% trust friends, 27% trust experts). Social psychology has shown that People tend to develop relationships with those who have similar interests, like them, beyond demographics and psychographics. And there are those who have established a strong relationship with each other the ability to influence the behavior of others. Social purchases enabled by the Internet is one of the most effective business ideas for out in recent times. Combining the power of two most popular activities among the e-masses, networking and shopping, which is proving to be the new frontier in electronic commerce.

According to a Nielsen report, it is estimated that two thirds of the global Internet population visited social networking site blogs and such activities now account for almost 10% of all Internet time. "Community members has exceeded personal email become the fourth sector most popular online after a search, portals and software applications for PC. Member 'Communities' has taken a foothold in all markets significant 50% of the online population in Switzerland and Germany to 80% in Brazil (12). Immensely popular social marketing allows organizations to benefit groups of fellow consumers who regularly communicate via the Internet and demonstrate in most cases to be even more effective than advertising, by creating loyal customers bases and provide real-time consumer to consumer interaction. It's not just blogs and virtual communities where customers can redeem these notes, interactive web pages that focus on specific brands are also created to entice both loyal to the brand as well as curious customers potential. "The Web is rapidly moving in a way to publish in a mode of participation. It is a medium where community participants are opinion leaders which will help in adopting brand values by sharing personal experience, opinions and suggestions with other members.

Social networks 'Market power, and its mass of potential customers, are forcing a mutation of existing concepts of social shopping and commerce has become synonymous generation of online commerce that comes and significantly affected by rapid social networks earlier. Until recently, Internet shops were largely a replica of traditional stores – the services and categories that occurred largely on the convenience store. However, people do not shop on-line the same way as they do in a traditional store. The social shopping Web site to develop its own distinct personality and are redefining e-commerce, influencing customers. Shoppers can find the best deals and the best items for specific purposes. E-shopping sites respond to the online behavior is much more social. Affected by changing customer preferences, the enormous popularity and expansion of social networks, the conquest of market niches, online marketers have created a new generation of business and sales concepts in recent years that are fundamentally different from conventional agriculture e-shops.

Social Shopping as a company has evolved over time. As online shopping gained steam in the early days, a pioneer e-merchants like eBay and Amazon gained control, and continue be very important in that position in the market. Companies are using social shopping to increase adhesion, train and engage community members, fueling rumors, people of influence exercised by nurturing brand advocates, listen to the network, market research, product development, provide better customer service and, therefore, develop a bidirectional communication channel between the community and decision makers of the company. Nevertheless, companies create online communities the greater the chances of positive action.

Very few of the benefits of allowing SOCIAL SHOPPING:

(1) Ability to influence consumers at the point of decision more: c ustomers visit social sites to see if there is an exchange of views and recommendations on wishing to purchase items or view them in e-commerce sites. Positively influence the participants to review the products help in decisions Buyers can invite one or more friends, increasing the number of visitors to the site. The longer the website visitors can participate attention the more likely they are to buy.

(3) Conducting immediate purchases "While some guests may only consist of online products research, but not necessarily purchase, positive reinforcement from a friend or family member could persuade them to do the purchase at that time.

 

(4) increasing conversion rates / Multiple Purchases "Friends often share common denominators and preferences. If a buyer of its stock possible with other, both may be prone to buy the product.

(5) Shared Enabling Discovery: Each of us has a capacity limited attention and different skills to find the right product. In some cases shared discovery simply means your friend put products into your basket. In other cases, the ideas start flowing and create out of it: You can find a good pair of jeans, but not a party shirt to go with it. One can seek the help of a friend to choose a good one. Therefore, a perfect outfit can be selected through the involvement of relatives.

 

(6) Provide Validation of Purchase: At the simplest level, go shopping with a friend is to verify style. As shown by Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice, Buying with friends can provide a validation that one actually looks good in a short denim skirt.

 

(7) It Fun: go to youth provides a framework for social interaction. Each visit to the mall on the outcome of discussions with friends the discovery of new products and a unique experience. Until now, retailers have been the best little success in imbuing the experience with online interaction as equals.

CONCLUSION:

The universe has evolved since its formation and with it all that survives in it. As the saying goes "the change has been the only constant." Evolution encourages affects everything, and in animals. As far as humans are concerned, despite our resistance to any change, we have been forced to change constantly.

Internet has led to a rebirth of the human form of life. It has gone from being a practical communication tool to something that has the ability to profoundly influence large no. of people's beliefs and perceptions. The power of the "network" has become too important to ignore and because of the large no. of people interacting in it, one can only ignore the dangers. The Network has issued a very broad and its people has been increasing. It has been radically affected modern society and influences the lives of thousands of millions of people, and that keeps getting faster. Also has become a powerful engine capable of changing business dynamics in all sectors of retail banking. In recent years, a boost of innovative developments pushed the social web, an environment where users collaborate and participate online. The spectrum ranges from small networks of social media communities more multi-blog complex and fully integrated social commerce platforms.

Traditionally, industries, retail and CPG changers are known to be slow. However, Today, the industry dynamics are changing very quickly driven by the changing demands of the rulers-the buyers! Electronic commerce has evolved dramatically since its inception in mid 1990 as a retail-driven, channel-focused transaction, completely separate from that of a merchant in a transformation of retail consumer-driven technology.

contemporary social guests have a wide range of online tools their willingness to exchange information and opinions about products and services. No longer chained to e-mail or instant messaging, buyers social write reviews, comments on the reviews, post blogs, and even create and post videos, if not at the retail site, then in a variety of comparison sites to ensure its rapid transmission.

Enabling social shopping has become an important criterion for sellers, because social interaction plays an important role in the purchasing process. Peers can help you find products of interest, and in making decisions whether to buy and also mock the shopping experience more. Social Validation is a fundamental part of the decision of a buyer to purchase a product. In the virtual world, the purchase has been largely a lonely experience. This has led to online stores to shift their focus from being purely transactional to become the experience. These changes indicate a radical change in power-sellers to buyers reaffirming the power of online communities.

Social shopping is a win-win opportunity for its users, members, and organizations. It offers the opportunity for everyone to acquire or scattered information about the products they intend to buy or sell. As the technology develops more robust methods of social interaction online, consumers expect this social agenda flowing into their online shopping experiences. To succeed,

consumer engagement in social networks has the potential to change the way consumers are going, not only through the digital medium, but through all forms of traditional media. By supporting key decision points in the buying process Retail sales boost, but it has many long-term benefits and short for online retailers, creating the opportunity to influence mentality of buyers and increase the duration value.

REFERENCES:

(1) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/ecomnr1108.pdf

(2) Morgan Stanley, 2009

(3) The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2009.

(4) comScore, February 2009; IMRG Capgemini, March 2009, TNS Infratest, November 2008; FEVAD, January 2009.

(5) from JP Morgan, January 2009.

(6) World ITU Telecommunication / ICT Indicators Database 2007.

(7) Survey on Internet Retailer September 2008.

(8) Rosetta, January 2009.

(9) Econsultancy, March 2009.

(10) Rispa Vito, what makes the human herd, http://www.adsavvy.org/understanding-the-human-herd-mentality/

(11) Mark Earls, an expert in human behavior, communications and strategic thinking has explored the relationship between behavior humane and effective strategies for success and, probably more than anyone. He is the award-winning author of several books on the subject including Herd – How to change behavior March 2009.

(13) investigation of NCR.

© Sanjai velayudhan

Note: The author wishes to express his opinion both bouquets and brickbats. Write to me, "sanjai.velayudhan @ gmail.com.

About the Author

A behavioural trainer by education and a loyalty specialist by profession, Sanjai has PG qualifications in Training and Performance management from CLMS, University of Leicester.

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