For social primates, safety from predators was primarily accomplished through a close-knit protective social group.
In our model, this field refers to a set of families that comprise a close-knit social network.
On the other hand, a close-knit network will accelerate changes once they have been accepted into it.
Social destabilization must also be prevented, for example, by treating all, and not only some, members of families and close-knit societies.
For them, apparently, new historicism is not a coherent, close-knit school in which one might be enrolled or from which one might be expelled.
These former soldiers had a strong sense of community as part of parliament's northern army, a close-knit and cohesive army compared with other parliamentarian forces.
Her research is most effective in dismissing the picture of a comprehensive welfare state that some historians have thought to characterize harmonious, close-knit local communities.
Those living in the former mining village frequently described close-knit friendships dating back many years.
