Question

primary group is the nursery of human nature.explain? answer in about 300 words​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The primary group is the nucleus of all social organizations. It is a small group in which a small number of persons come into direct contact with one another. They meet “face to face” for mutual help, companionship and discussion of common questions. They live in the presence and thought of one another. Charles H. Cooley, the first sociologist to draw the attention to primary groups, describes them in the following words:-

By primary groups I mean those characterised by intimate ace-to-face association and co-operation. They are primary, in several senses, but chiefly in that they are fundamental in framing the social nature and ideals of the individual.

The result of intimate association psychologically is a certain fusion of individualities in a common whole, so that one’s very self, for many purposes at least, is the common life and purpose of the group. Perhaps the simplest way of describing the wholeness is by saying that it is a ‘we’; it involves the sort of sympathy and mutual identification for which ‘we’ is the natural expression. One lives in the feeling of the whole and finds the chief aim of his will in that feeling.

Answer 2

Answer:

In the words of Cooley, primary groups are the “the nursery of human nature”. The individual learns the first lesson of loyalty, honesty, sympathy and develops expectations in these groups. (6) They are the important agency for the development of personality (socialisation) of the individual.Cooley (1909) coined the term primary group to denote intimate, comparatively permanent, and solidary associations of mutually identifying persons, and a century of sociological research has increased our understanding of primary groups in their variety of forms and multifaceted, contingent functions. According to Cooley, primary groups are primary in the sense of providing the first and (because of the greater openness and pliability of children) the most important socialization. The most important examples he cited in this sense are the family, children's play‐groups, and the neighborhood or village communityThe essential characteristics of a primary group are intimate feelings and close identification. These qualities are found more abundantly in some concrete groups than in others. In a primary group we directly co-operate with our fellows and our relations with them are intimately personal..