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Members of secondary groups have impersonal ties between them, involving only limited parts of their personalities towards one another. These interactions are called secondary relationship. Interactions between clerks and customers, employers and workers, and doctors and patients are all examples of secondary relationships.
Groups, categories.
Primary groups
Secondary groups
Groups play major roles in the lives of their other group members, they also influence the society around them. A group is composed of people who share several common features between themselves including the following:
1. They are in regular contact with one another.
2. They share some ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
3. They take one another’s behavior into account.
4. They have one or more interests or goals in common.
A primary group is composed of people who are emotionally close, know one another well, and seek the company of one another. These groups can also be called primary relationships because they sometimes can be intimate, personal, caring, and fulfilling. Family and childhood play are the first primary groups a child experiences.
Unlike primary groups, secondary groups are impersonal and goal oriented. Secondary groups exist to accomplish a specific purpose. It only takes a segment of its members’ lives. Work groups, volunteers during disasters, and environmentalist organizations are examples of secondary groups.
A number of conditions favor the development of primary groups and primary relationships.