A dyad (from Greek dýo, "two") in sociology is a noun used to describe a group of two people. "Dyadic" is an adjective used to describe this type of communication/interaction. A dyad is the smallest possible social group.
Dyadic friendships refer to the most immediate and concrete level of peer interaction, which is expanded to include new forms of relationships in adolescence - most notably, romantic and sexual relationships. Already Ferdinand Tönnies treated it as a special pattern of gemeinschaft, 1887, as community of spirit.
See also
- Triad (sociology)
- Social relation
- Social action
- Normal type
- Ideal type
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- Antipositivism
- Structure and agency
- Reflexivity
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