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Write short note: Primary group.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Systems of Kinship

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Charles Horton Cooley (Social Organization, 1909) introduced the term: "By primary groups I mean those characterized by intimate face-to-face association and cooperation." He called them primary because they are first in time and first in importance for forming the individual's social nature, making them the "nursery of human nature". His examples were the family, the…

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