LESSON 2 Flashcards
What is the meaning and nature of society?
A society is a group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture. It is a group of people living together in a definite territory, having a sense of belongingness, mutually interdependent of each other, and follow a certain way of life. Society is derived 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.
(Arcinas, 2016)
What are the two types of definitions of society?
The two types of definitions of society are 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.
(Ariola, 2012)
What are the reasons people live together as a society?
People live together as a society for the following reasons: a. For survival - No man can live alone. The care, support, and protection given by others are important factors for survival. b. Feeling of gregariousness - This is the desire of people to be with other people, especially of their own culture, for emotional warmth and belongingness. c. Specialization - Professionals organize themselves into societies or associations to promote and protect their own professions.
(Ariola, 2012)
Reasons people live together as a society
a. For survival - No man is an island. No man can live alone. From birth to death, man always depends upon his parents and from others. The care, support, and protection given by them are important factors for survival.
Source: Ariola, 2012
Reasons people live together as a society
b. Feeling of gregariousness - This is the desire of people to be with other people, especially of their own culture. People flock together for emotional warmth and belongingness. The need for approval, sympathy and understanding to which the individual belongs is a psychosocial need. Among Filipinos, the feeling of gregariousness is found in all levels of society, especially among the lower socio-economic classes. The more the person is needy, the more he craves sympathy and understanding from someone else.
Source: Ariola, 2012
Reasons people live together as a society
c. 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.
Characteristics of Society
Society or human society is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations such as kinship, marriage, social status, roles and social networks. By extension, society denotes the people of a region or country, sometimes even the world, taken as a whole.
Characteristics of Society
- 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 individuals will affect the stability of the other parts of the system.
Characteristics of Society
- 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.
Characteristics of Society
- It socializes its members and 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.
Characteristics of 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.
Characteristics of Society
- It holds its members through a common culture. The individuals in a society 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.
Reasons people live together as a society
a. For survival - No man is an island. No man can live alone. From birth to death, man always depends upon his parents and from others. The care, support, and protection given by them are important factors for survival.
Source: Ariola, 2012
Reasons people live together as a society
b. Feeling of gregariousness - This is the desire of people to be with other people, especially of their own culture. People flock together for emotional warmth and belongingness. The need for approval, sympathy and understanding to which the individual belongs is a psychosocial need. Among Filipinos, the feeling of gregariousness is found in all levels of society, especially among the lower socio-economic classes. The more the person is needy, the more he craves sympathy and understanding from someone else.
Source: Ariola, 2012
