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Primary & Secondary Groups

What are secondary relationships like?

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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

  • What is a primary group?
  • How do primary groups develop?

Secondary groups

  • What are secondary groups?
  • What are secondary relationships like?

Groups,categories.

What is a primary

group?

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.

What are secondary groups?

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.

How do primary groups develop?

Primary group

A number of conditions favor the development of primary groups and primary relationships.

  • Small size. It is hard for a group of many members to develop close emotional ties to one another. The chances of knowing everyone fairly well are very low compared to small groups.
  • Face to face contact. People who can see each other and who can experience nonverbal communication such as facial expressions, tone of voice, and touch are more likely to develop close ties.
  • Continuous contact. Most people require repeated social contact for the development of a primary relationship, not every relationship is love at first sight.
  • Proper social environment. Seeing someone everyday in a close setting is not enough to form a primary relationship. The social setting does’t encourage personal relationships. This is why primary relationships don’t not usually develop between students and teachers, bosses and employees, or judges and lawyers.

Secondary groups

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