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primary group
noun
- a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of primary group1
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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.
Studies of primitive peoples indicate that early social organizations were based upon ties of kinship and primary group contacts.
The Blue Laws of Connecticut are little else than primary-group attitudes written into law.
In a primary group, social control narrowly restricts the selection of patterns and behavior.
See Collective behavior.Crime, from the point of view of the primary group, 48, 49.
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