¶ … Daniel Wegner, the author discusses the ways in which a set of people come together to create a "group." The point at which a unit of people becomes a classifiable group, from a sociological viewpoint, is when that population begins to develop group-think. This is the process wherein the idea of one member of the population quickly becomes the pervading ideology of that population (Wegner 1985,-page 185). Different components of the human mind, particularly those centered on the acquisition and sustainment of memory are easily influenced when surrounded by like-minded thinking. Once the group is created and the process of group-think established, then the memory no longer becomes part of the individual, but rather a continuance of the power of the group. This process, which Wegner calls transactive memory, not only rewires the individual brain,...

Wegner (1985) writes: "Once in place, then, the transactive memory system can have an impact on what the group as a whole can remember, and as a result, on what individuals in the group remember and regard as correct even outside the group" (page 191).
Becoming part of a group, from Wegner's perspective is more than a single population with similar interests. A collection of people becomes one singular group once the individual idiosyncrasies or beliefs of the one becomes absorbed and accepted by the other members of that population. The formulation of a true group requires the individuals to abandon their own perceptions and instead embrace the ideology of the rest of this population. Without doing so, the individual becomes singular and is not accepted to…