Charles Horton Cooley Worried About the Loss of Intimacy as Secondary

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Essay

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 to the development of more secondary groups.What do you think about the trend toward more secondary-group relationships in modern society?

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Definitions:

Confidence Coefficient

The probability level associated with a confidence interval, indicating the frequency with which an estimated interval would include the parameter if the experiment were repeated.

T Value

A value computed from a sample data used in a t-test in statistics that measures the size of the difference relative to the variation in your sample data.

Confidence Interval

A swath of numerical values, from statistics of a sample, aimed at covering the unascertained value of a population parameter.

Margin of Error

The half-width of a confidence interval, representing the maximum expected difference between the true population parameter and a sample estimate of that parameter.