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Introduction To Society
Introduction To Society
Introduction to Society
SOCIETY
Aristotle
> man is a social being
August Comte
> as social organism possessing harmony and structure
> rules, Mindanao as a dysfunctional society (Abu Sayyaf-civilians-military)
Emile Durkheim
> as a reality in its own right, bound by cultures, beliefs, norms
> the state of reality we know are different to others
Talcott Parson
> a total complex of human relationships
GH Mead
> as an exchanged of gestures which involves the use of symbols
Morris Ginsberg
> the collection of individuals united by certain relations or mode of behavior
Cole Saw
> complex of organized associations and Institutions in the community
- implies Differences
>sense of likeness is not always sufficient
- Interdependence
> form of symbiosis, of close mutual interdependence of two species of organisms (MW)
> cooperation and interdependence
- Co-operation
> a social interaction wherein two or more work together to gain a common end
- Conflict
> expresses itself in numerous ways and in various degrees and over
every range of human conduct.
> modes are always changing with changing social and cultural conditions
[ types disappear and new emerge ]
Force theory
- makes society the result of superior physical force.
- society originated in the subjugation of the weaker by the stronger
- form of recruitment: war, compulsion, coercion
Organic theory
- compares society to a living organism
- individuals as integral part and parcel of society
- indicates social nature of man