It is a word used in sociology to name the sense of affective union between members of a family, clan, tribe. It was created in the late 19th century by pragmatic philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and inspired by the Christian concept of agape as "unselfish love of neighbor." It is made up of the Greek voices 945; 947; 945; 960; 951; (agape "vocation, love for the family") the suffix - 953; 963; 956; 959; 962; ( -ismós "-ismo" ) .
