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TYPES OF GROUPS

Categories, Aggregates, and Groups

Social Category - people who share a social characteristic, such as a taxpayer, a woman, or a college student.

Social Aggregate - people who happen to be at the same place at the same time, such as students waiting in line for concert tickets.

● A group is sometimes confused with a social category and a social aggregate. Although neither categories nor aggregates are groups, some of their members may form groups by interacting regularly, sharing ways of thinking and feeling, taking one another's behavior into an account, and having some common goals.

Primary Group

→ is composed of people who are emotionally close, know one another well, and seek one another's company. The members of a primary group have a "we" feeling and enjoy being together. It is the most important setting for socialization.

Charles Horton Cooley, one of the founders of symbolic interactionism, coined the term primary group.......

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