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| A typically small group of individuals standing in an enduring personal relationship to one another. Examples include parents, spouses, or close friends. |
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| A group that is relatively large and whose members interact on the basis of narrow roles rather than on an intimate basis and are usually organized around a specific task. |
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| A group of people who share a common sense of identity and have sustained interaction with one another. |
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| Long-standing patterns of norms and expectations of behaviour within a society or an organization. |
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| intermediate organization |
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| Robert Nisbet’s term for a primary group that is based on religion, family, or community and that, historically, stood between the individual and the state. |
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| Power and authority concentrated into a few offices. |
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| Shared ideas or beliefs that serve to justify and support the interests of particular groups or organizations. |
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| Power that is attached to a position that others perceive as legitimate. |
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| A form of government that recognizes the right of citizenss to participate in political decision making or to elect representatives to government bodies. |
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| The defining of all human relationships in terms of monetary exchange. |
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| The disturbance of a system from a state of order and predictability to one of chaos and unpredictability. |
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| The weakening of the social bond within a society. Disintegration allows various groups to fragment and break away from the whole. |
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| The traditional, legal, or accustomed ways of government, characterized by respect for office, procedure, law, opposing parties, consultation, and open communication within executive agencies and between branches of government. |
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| The organization of an activity around the goal of making a profit. |
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| The network of social relationships that link individuals through common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. |
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| A given territory ruled by government institutions whose authority is backed by law and the ability to use force. |
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| Formal institutional structures of the nation-state whose purpose is to regulate internal and external relations. |
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| A formal organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and written rules of procedure, staffed by full-time salaried officials, and striving for the efficient attainment of organizational goals. |
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