Today More of Our Social Relationships Are Dominated by Secondary

question 20

Essay

Today more of our social relationships are dominated by secondary groups instead of primary groups.Charles Horton Cooley worried about the loss of intimacy as secondary groups became more prominent and pervasive.Émile Durkheim and Georg Simmel saw some benefits of the development of more secondary groups.In three to five sentences,please explain what you think about the trend toward more secondary-group relationships in modern society,including its pros and cons.

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