SECONDARY GROUPS
An American social psychologist, Charles Horton Cooley, has not even mentioned the term ‘secondary group’ in his book ‘Social Organisation’. Sociologists like Kingsley Davis, Ogburn, Maclver and others have popularised the concept of secondary group. According to them, groups other than those of primary ones can be called ‘secondary’. Hence, the secondary groups are treated as a ‘residual category’.
1. Ogburn and Nimkoff say that the ‘groups which provide experience lacking in intimacy’ can be called secondary groups.
2. Frank D. Watson writes, ‘the secondary group is larger and more formal, is specialised and direct in its contacts and relies more for unity and continuance upon the stability of its social organisation than does the primary group’.
3. H. T. Majumdar, “When face-to-face contact are not present in the relations of members, we have secondary group”.
4. Richard T. Schafer, “The term secondary group refers to a formal impersonal group where there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.”
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