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Secondary groups are formal, impersonal groups in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding. Many or all of the clubs we belong to, including knitting clubs, may have these traits. Visit the website for one such knitting club at www.knitaddicted.com/html/.

Click on "forum" at the top of the page, and peruse some of the questions these knitters ask of one another.
  1. What kind of information or resources do these knitters seek from one another?
  2. To what degree do the knitters on this list appear to have emotional connections with one another?
Click on "home" at the top of the page, and peruse some of the other areas of this website.
  1. What would you gain from being a member of a secondary group such as this one?
  2. How do the primary groups in your life—such as family and friends—provide you with resources that you could not acquire through a forum for knitters?
  3. What kinds of resources would a knitting group like this provide you that your primary groups cannot?





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