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primary group
noun
, Sociology.
- a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of primary group1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
These four stems are directly connected with one another at the root only, to wit, by the common primary group of the Worm tribe.
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Studies of primitive peoples indicate that early social organizations were based upon ties of kinship and primary group contacts.
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The Blue Laws of Connecticut are little else than primary-group attitudes written into law.
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In a primary group, social control narrowly restricts the selection of patterns and behavior.
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See Collective behavior.Crime, from the point of view of the primary group, 48, 49.
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