social group - people sharing some social relation

mishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"

family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

folks - your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"

family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin

totem - a clan identified by their kinship to a common totemic object

Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel - twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob

relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

clan member, clansman, clanswoman - a member of a clan

tribesman - someone who lives in a tribe