ABSTRACT

Gouplehood was the second most frequently encountered style in this series, with thirty-three respondents who had developed this mode of living. For it, as for Familism, the core area of life is characterized by functionally diffuse and affective bonds, this time focused in a twoperson group. Many of the respondents whose style was Familism had Gouplehood as the secondary style, reinforcing it. When we add these two categories there are eighty-eight respondents, or more than half of the panel, whose lives were absorbed in close personal relations and for whom the distinctly dominant core of their social systems was a primary group.