concept
of
society
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Directions: Analyze each pictures below. Share your
impressions about the images below
Following your
description of the
pictures, what
insights do you have
regarding the
connection and
differences between
culture and soceity?
According to sociologist, a society is
a group of people with common
territory, interaction, and culture.
Society is deerived from the Latin
term “societas”, from socius, which
means companion or associate.
Thus, it refers to all people,
collectively regarded as constituting
a community of related,
interdependent individuals living in a
definite place, following a certain
mode of life
Definition of society has two types - the
functional definition and the structural
definition. From the functional point of
view, society is defined as a complex of
groups in reciprocal relationships,
interacting upon one another, enabling
human organisms to carry on their life-
activities and helping each person to fulfill
his wishes and accomplish his interests in
association with his fellows.
From the structural point of view,
society is the total social heritage of
folkways, mores and institutions; of
habits, sentiments and ideals. The
important aspect of society is the
system of relationships, the pattern of
the norms of interaction by which the
members of the society maintain
themselves.
The
following are
reasons
people live
together as
a society
For survival – No man is an island. No
man can live alone. From birth to death,
man always dependsn upon his parents
and from others. The care, support, and
protection given by them are importnt
factors for survival.
Feeling of gregariousness – This is the
desire of people to be with
other people, esecially of their own
culture. People flock together
for emotional warmth and belongingness.
Specialization – Teachers, businessmen,
students, physicians,
nurses, lawyers, pharmacists, and other
professionals organize
themselves into societies or associations
to promote and protect
their own professions.
characteristics of
society
Society comprises of a group of people who share a
common culture, live in a particular area and feel
themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity.
Society has the following characteristics:
It is a social system.
A social system consists of individuals interacting
with each other. A system consists of sub-parts
whereby a change in one part affects the other parts.
Thus, a change in one group of individualswill affect
the stability of the other parts of the system.
It is relatively large
The people must be socially integrated to be
considered relatively large than if the people are
individually scattered. Thus, the people in a family,
clan, tribe, neighborhood, community are socially
integrated to be relatively large in scope.
It socializes its members and from those from
without.
Since most of society’s members are born to it, they
are taught the basic norms and expectations. Those
who come from other societies, before being
accepted as functioning members, are socialized and
taught the basic norms and expectations of the
society.
It endures, produces and sustains its members
for generations.
For society to survive, it must have the ability to
produce, endure and sustain its new members for at
least several generations. For instance, if a society
cannot assist its members during their extreme
conditions of hunger and poverty, that society will
not survive long
It holds its members through a common
culture.
The individuals in asociety are held together
because that society has symbols, norms, values
patterns of interaction, vision and mission that are
commonly shared by the members of such society.
It has clearly-defined geographical
territory.
The members in a society must live in a
certain specific habitat or place and have a
common belongingness and sense of
purpose.
