Lesson 2: The Concept of Society and Culture

Question 1

group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture.

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society

Question 2

a group of people who share a common territory snd culture.

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society

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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.

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society

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Society is deerived from the Latin term

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societas from socius, meaning companion or associate

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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

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society

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types of societies

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functional and structural

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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.

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functional definition

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society is the total social heritage of folkways, mores and institutions; of habits, sentiments and ideals.

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structural definition

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The important aspect of
society is the

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system of relationships

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the pattern of the norms of interaction by which the members of the society maintain themselves.

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system of relationships

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reasons why people live together as a society

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for survival, feeling of gregariousness, specialization

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No man is an island. No man can live alone. From birth to death, man always depends upon his parents and mothers. The care, support, and protection given by them are important factors for survival.

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for survival

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This is the desire of people to be with other people, especially of their own culture.

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feeling of gregariousness

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People flock together for emotional warmth and belongingness. the need for approval, sympathy and understanding to which the individual belongs is a psychosocial need.

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feeling of gregarousness

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Teachers, businessmen, students, physicians, nurses, lawyers, pharmacists, and other professionals organize themselves into societies or associations to promote and protect their own professions.

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specialization

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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.

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society

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s a group of people related to each other throughpersistent relations such as kinship, marriage, social status, roles andsocial
networks.

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society

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characteristics of a society

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IT IS a social system; relatively large; socializes its members and from those without; endures, produces, and sustains its members for generations; holds its members through a common culture; has clearly defined geographical territory

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consists of individuals interactingwith rach other. A system consists of sub-parts whereby a changeinonepart affects the other parts. Thus, a change in one group of individualswill affect the stability of the other parts of the system.

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it is a social system

Question 20

The people must be socialy integratedtobeconsidered relatively large than if the people are individually scattered. Thus, the people in a family, clan, tribe, neighborhood, communityaresocially integrated to be relatively large in scope.

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it is relatively large

Question 21

Since most of
society’s members are born to it, they are taught the basic normsandexpectations. Those who come from other societies, before being acceptedas functioning members, are socialized and taught the basic normsandexpectations of the society

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it socializes its members and from those from without

Question 22

Forsociety to survive, it must have the ability to produce, endureand sustain its new members for at least several generations. For instance, if
a society cannot assist its members during their extreme conditionsof
hunger and poverty, that society will not survive long.

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it endures, produces, and sustains its members for generations

Question 23

The individualsinasociety are held together because that society has symbols, norms, values,patterns of interaction, vision and mission that are commonly sharedbythe members of such society.

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it holds its members through common culture

Question 24

The members inasocietymust live in a certain specific habitat or place and have a commonbelongingness and sense of purpose.

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it has a clearly defined geographical territory