Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Both statements are correct: some experts hold that communication reflects a person's primary group affiliation, and communication should be understood within the broad social structure and process.

Statement 1 holds because our speech, references and codes carry the imprint of the intimate groups, family and close circles, that first shaped us.

Statement 2 holds because communication cannot be grasped in isolation, its meanings and functions being embedded in wider social arrangements.

The two ideas reinforce each other, one pointing to the small primary group, the other to the encompassing social whole.

Together they place communication on a continuum from intimate belonging to society wide structure and process.

Cooley's notion of the primary group, marked by intimate face to face ties, underlies the first of these claims.