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  1. Aggregates A quasi social group; mere
    physical proximity/
    togetherness; lack of unifying
    features; not functionally
    integrated


A group of people
standing on
queues; a group
people taking a taxi
or a bus; people
walking a in busy
city street; a group
of patients sitting or
standing in a
waiting room of a
hospital, etc


  1. Category Quasi social group; dispersed
    collectivity; members
    belonging to similar
    socioeconomic background


All women aged 60
an above; all HIV
patients in the
world; all rural
people in Ethiopia;
etc


  1. Dyads A two-person, primary social
    group;


Husband and wife;
a two –person peer
group; etc
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