PHILOSOPHY
MICHAEL ANDRADA
TOPIC OUTLINE
PHILOSOPHY
I. Philosophy onON INDIVIDUAL
Individual AND SOCIETY
and Society
II. Society
A. Definition of Society
B. Nature of Society
III. Community
A. Definition of Community
B. Nature/Element of Community
IV. Society vs Community
V. Socialization
A. Definition of Socialization
B. Process of Socialization
C. Factors of Socialization
D. Agencies of Socialization
VI. Individualization
A. Aspects of Individualization
VII. Personal Disorganization
Man is a social animal
 Socialiaty or Sociability is our natural
instinct.
 Our survival depends on our interaction
with other people.
 We live in groups, communities, societies,
etc.
Man cannot live as a man without society.
 We develop and learn about the world
around us through the filter of other
people.
 We develop as human beings through
our society.
 Society shapes our identity, our thought,
and our emotions.
SOCIETY
 Derived from Latin word Socious, meaning
companionship or friendship.
 In Sociology, the term ‘Society’ refers NOT
to a group of people but to the complex
pattern of the norms of interaction that
arise among them.
 Society is said to be a web of social
relationship.
 Society is the complex pattern
relationships between individuals.
COMMUNITY
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Society is not a group of people, it is the
system of relationship that exists between the
individuals of the group ‒ Wright
Society is a complex of organized
association and communication with a
community ‒ G.D.M Cole
Society is a union itself; wherein the
organization is the sum of formal relations
in which associating individuals are bound
together.
NATURE OF SOCIETY
LIKENESS
 An essential pre-requisite of society
 Sense of likeness was focused on early
kinships and supposed blood
relationships.
DIFFERENCE
 Diversity or variation.
 Complete likeness would make
relationships limited.
 A key to a better society
 Not eliminated by the sense of
likeness found in society.
INTER-DEPENDENCE
 A relationship where the people
involved benefit each other.
 Seeks fulfillment by the aid of the
other.
 Give and take
COOPERATION
 Without cooperation, no society can
exist.
 Speaks of mutual benefit
 Cooperation is a form of coordination.
 A key to a better society
 Cooperation is an action with a plan;
such plan is created with a dialogue.
 Cooperation is a group of people
of
acting together with a single mind.
DEFINITION OF SOCIETY
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 An area of social living Likeness

 Members of a group living together in  Likeness in terms of language, customs,
a specific area culture, etc.
 is a geographic location or a specific
territory. Wider Ends
 The ends of a community are wider.
DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY  Similarity doesn’t end
Community is a social group with some degree of  “beyond”
“we-feeling” and living in given area ‒ Bogardus
Particular Name
Community is the total organization of social life  Sense of identity; what the community is
with a limited area ‒ Ogburn and Nimkoff known for.
 Separates them from other communities.
Community is a human population living within
a limited geographic area and carrying on a SOCIETY VS COMMUNITY
common inter-dependence life ‒ Lundberg

NATURE OF COMMUNITY SOCIETY SOCiALIZATION

COMMUNITY
Particular area is not Particular area is
Group of People necessary necessary
 Individuals live together where they share Abstract Concrete
the basic conditions of a common life.
Basic conditions include the following: Sentiment may or
Sentiment is essential
may not be present
 Food
Can include more than
 Clothing
one community;
 Shelter Smaller than society
Bigger than
 Sex community
Likeness = Difference Likeness > Difference
Locality More extensive and Less extensive and
 Territotial area varied interests varied interests
 A group of people forms a community when It consists of a group
it begins to reside in a definite locality. of individuals living in
It is a web of social
a particular area with
relationships
some degree of “we-
Community Sentiment feeling”
 The feeling of belonging
Man is not only social but also a cultual being
 “we-feeling”
 Culture provides opportunities to develop our
personalities.
Permanency
 This development process is not an
 Not transitory
automatic process.
 Stays in a geographic location
permanently.
Socialization
 Permanent life in a definite place.
 Social training to the individual
 A process of moulding a human infant to a
member of society
Naturality
 Differs from society to society.
 Not by an act of will, but out of natural
actions.  This process involves culture.
 Not done out of force or choice.  The act of learning the social ways of
acting and feeling.

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 Most of a child’s actions are random; by the

DEFINITION OF SOCiALIZATION means of socialization, children will be
able to identify the nature of things.
Socialization is a process by which the individual
learns to conform to the norms of the group ‒
W.H. Ogburn LANGUAGE
 A medium of social intercourse
Socialization is the process of working together  Intercourse in the sense that it is the
of a developing group. It includes the process of reproduction of
responsibility of being guided by the needs of socialization.
others ‒ Bogardus
 The means of cultural transmission
 Moulds the personality of the individual
Socialization is the process which the child from infancy
acquires a cultural content, along with
selfhood and personality ‒ Green
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION  FAMILY
 Socialization is the process of learning group  SCHOOL
norms, ideals, habits, behaviors, and customs.
 PLAYMATES OR PEERS
 CHURCH
 The process of socialization begins before
 STATE
the child is born.

 Direct socialization only begins after INDIVIDUALIZATION

birth.
 It is the process in which man comes to
know himself and acquire the sence of
inner responsibility.
FACTORS OF SOCIALIZATION  Simply the process of attaining to one’s
own self.
IMITATION
 A person is carried by his own
 The process of copying an individual or
individuality.
the actions of the other.
 When a child attempts to walk like his/her
 Socialization brings man into relation with
others but individualization makes him
father, he/she is imitating.
autonomous or self determining.
 Imitation may be conscious or
unconscious, spontaneous or deliberate.
 The process of individualization is carried
not only by the individual but also by the
society.

ASPECTS OF INDIVIDUALIZATION Individualization as a process of learning

differences from other people.
SUGGESTION
 It is the process of communicating
information that has no logical or self-
evident basis.
 May be conveyed through language,
pictures or some similar medium.
IDENTIFICATION
 A child cannot make any distinction between
his organism and environment.
 We possess qualities that make us unique
from other people.
 From these distinctions, you learn to
be yourself.
 When people are isolated from other
people, they develop different types of
personalities.
Individualization on the level of new forms of
self, regarding attitudes.

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 A new thinking is developed within a

person.
 Consists of becoming aware of one’s
specific character and in the rise of a new
kind of self evaluation.
 A person becomes unique because of
newly learned attitude.

Individualization through objects.

 Having fixed feelings towards certain
people and objects.
 Objectify yourself by subjecting yourself
as an individual.

Individualization as a kind of developing into

ourselves
 Makes you realize that you don’t always
need people.
 Some sort of self-dependence.

PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION

 Personal disorganization represents the

behavior of individual which deviates from the
social norms.
 Any various behavior which disturbs the
integration of the attitude system within
the personality
 May be wild or violent.

This means that the individual is out of adjustment

with society, who has failed to organize the chief
goals of his life.
When parts of the social structure perform their
functions inefficiently and ineffectively, imbalance
occurs in the society.

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