Social System

Tan Hong Sheng (POK190005)

 Family, company,
Situation community, etc…

Physical Ecological
Influence by
Fulfillment of

Ideal requirements of more Interpersonal

than one individual actors (communication) relation

Symbol of cultural relation

 Characteristics of Social System

Standard of a set of things working together with

interaction to balance/facilitates a process

• Constant interaction between two or

more people.
• Behaviour of actor(a single human) is
directed or influenced by others
• To attain a aim or value, actors work
in group. Taclott Parsons
 Parson’s social system Theory
• Web of interactive social relation
I want the society Depends on Relation with Lay a
Not enough power Produce So can
look like that ! others others foundation

• Requirement :
Personal actor Society is a system of fundamentally
Interaction with other actors interrelated variables, which can be
Goal Attainment analysed in terms of their function and
Social situation as part of a boundary-maintaining
Cultural system system (Parsons 1949)
How the social system is created ?
Interpersonal Relation between different people
Afffected by

personal Cultural Process

Social procsess
Understand
Inspired by
role, personalities and idea different people, symbol and value

Cultural process (creation of new cultural)

Requirement of social system
• Socially accepted values and belief
• Inspired to work according to roles and status
• Have destructive force (Basic need should be satisfied)
• Social control
Structural of Social system
• Value – A set of option
Structural •
•
Norms – A behavior that accepted by a group of people
Collectively –Group of people playing their role

Dimension • Role – What you have to do (connect a person to social

system)

• Adequate Motivation
• Cultural Prerequisities

Functional •
•
•
Pattern Maintenance and Tension Management
Adaptation
Integration
Dimension • Goal Attainment
Functional dimension
• Adequate Motivation  Necessities and Inspiration (with inspiration
only people will work)
• Cultural pre-requities  Language and Symbol (to interact)
• Pattern Maintenance and tension Management  not ideal cause
tension and need institution to reduce tension
• Adaptation
• Integration
• Goal Attainment
Problem of Social System of Action
• Goal Attainment  Aim or Target to be achieved
• Adaptation  to collect resources to enable goal attainment
• Latency  Sustain / maintain a culture
• Integration  Maintain the solidarity among human
 Function and Dysfunctional;

Consequence Functional Dysfunctional

that maintain
a culture or Help in
Happen that
society. maintaining
spoilt a social
equilibrium of
system
social system

Profitable to a Not profitable to

society a society

Accepted by Not accepted by

society society
Manifest and Latent function

Manifest function Latent Function

• Clear from outside and
actor take effort to fulfill
• Intended by actor
• Recognised by others
• Do not take effort to
fulfill, just realize after
the consequence
• Not intended
• Not recognized by
others