THE HUMAN PERSON IN

SOCIETY

PRESENTED BY:
NIKEDA
LEAH
KRISTINE S.
WHAT IS A HUMAN PERSON IN
SOCIETY?

The human person exists to relate

with others. The person is by nature
a social being because he or she has
a tendency to go out of himself or
herself to form bonds and
relationships with others. Throughout
a person's life, he or she
experiences a variety of relationships
that help shape him or her as a
person.
Interplay Between Individualities and Social
Contexts

A person has individuality or self-hood. In like

manner, a person also has collectivity or other-hood
since he/she lives in association with other people.
His/Her self-hood remains the same; whereas, his/her
other-hood is oftentimes influences by his/her milieu.
Starting from birth onward, an individual child
experiences enculturation where he/she is introduced
and becomes familiarized with the process of observing,
knowing, learning, adapting, and acquiring one’s culture,
tradition, mores, and custom.
He/she learns about his/her expectations, position, roles,
and related behaviors in the community and larger
society where he/she lives in. On the other hand, an
individual person undergoes the process of acculturation
when he/she has the motive to learn, adopt and adapt to
a more dominant culture, such as a Filipino migrant who
has to live in an American soil – or any foreign land, for
that matter. When such a Filipino wholly embraced a
foreign culture after a long time as if it is already his/her
own native culture, assimilation occurs. Hence, an
individual’s unique selfhood as a human person can
never be subsumed under any social contexts, except
perhaps one’s other-hood or collective belongingness.
How individuals are shaped by their
social context?
When we interact with others, the
context in which our actions take place
plays a major role in our behavior. This
means that our understanding of
objects, words, emotions, and
social cues may differ depending
on where we encounter them.
How do individuals form society, and how are individuals transf
ormed by societies?
This is a brilliant question which is answered in sociology.
Talcott Parsons argued that when man lived in state of
nature he was preoccupied with his self narrow interest.
Each individual looked after his own needs. At times people
had conflicting interests and they also had to compete for
some scarce resource. As a result to avoid conflicts,
individuals came together and decided upon certain core
values which each individual had to obey. This he called as
‘value consensus'. This value consensus laid Foundation of
society. Individuals thus formed society in this way.
What are the different forms of societies and individualities?

The major types of societies historically have been

hunting-and-gathering, horticultural, pastoral,
agricultural, industrial, and postindustrial. As
societies developed and grew larger, they became
more unequal in terms of gender and wealth and
also more competitive and even warlike with other
societies.
Л Hunting and Gathering Society
❖ Earliest & simplest form of society

❏ Small sized and composed mainly of

families
❏ Are nomadic

❏ Members are treated equally and

decisions are usually arrived through a
consensus, because of this, roles of its
members and division of labor is not very
clearly defined
Pastoral Society

❏ Domestication of animals for a more

stable food supply

❏ Have larger populations than hunting

and gathering societies and remain
longer in one place

❏ Often produce surplus food and

resources, which they trade with other
societies
Horticultural Society

❏ Primarily engages in the

small-scale cultivation of
plants, fruits, and
vegetables and the
domestication of animals

❏ Semi-nomadic

❏ Roles and responsibilities

are more clearly defined
with many tasks assigned
according to gender
Agrarian/Agricultural Society

❏ A further evolution of the

pastoral and horticultural
societies

❏ Involves large-scale and long-

term cultivation of crops and
domestication of animals.

❏ Improved technology and the

use of tools to aid in farming

❏ Giving rise to a growing

population in agricultural
societies
Industrial Society

❏ Use of specialized
machinery in the
production of goods and
services

❏ Resulted in the Industrial

Revolution, which in turn
gave in rise to new
production and industrial
methods, as well as
innovations in
transportation and
communication
Post-Industrial Society

❏ Marked by the establishment

of societies based on
knowledge, information, and
the sale of services

❏ Members have higher

education, better training and
specialized roles

❏ Virtual Society, where people

organized themselves through
communication technology and
the Internet, is a product of a
post-industrial society
How are human relations transformed with the social
systems?
Similarly,the human relations are also influenced
and transformed by the social system. 1)
Religion,caste etc are influencing social
system components which manipulates the
relationships between two people of different
religions or caste
Human relations are shaped by the social systems
within which people must necessarily interact. At
the same time, the ways people respond to one another
within the constraints that their social system imposes
have an efect on the system itself.
Evaluate the transformation of human
relationships by Social System and how
societies transform individual human beings

societies and communities were initially

formed as a matter of survival. This
way,each one is able to contribute to the
growth of the country. The society is then
transformed as the individual people
mature,change goals are forced to change.