An overview of Man,

Society & State,

State Structure
under
parliamentary form of Government
 SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social Sciences are concerned with
the origin and development of human society,
the institutions,
relationships,
and ideas involved in social life.
 Man, Society & State

By nature human is a social being as his natural

need make it necessary for him/her to live in
the company of others.
In society human is concerned with
innumerable relations and contacts. When
these relations and contact form an
organization it is called “SOCIETY”.
 THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIETY
FAMILY

Man is by nature and necessity a social being. Society existed from the very
beginning of human existence. The earliest form of social organization was the
family. Society in fact originated in family.

FORMS OF FAMILY

The ancient families were divided into two broad types:

1. Patriarchal

2. Matriarchal

3. The Modern Family

a. Single Family or Simple Family

b. Joint Family
 SOCIETY
• Society originally means ‘companionship’ and
‘association’. It is in-fact “The whole system
of social relationship.”
• A system in which people live together in
organized communities.
 EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY
• Impossible to trace back the date of origin

• Early society was different in many respects

• The society has reached at its present form through the operation of
various factors, i. e.
A. KINSHIP (family the earliest society kinship or blood relationship).
B. RELIGION ( clan, group of families , further increase, Religion
entered, helped in development of society).
C. POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
 SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL
• In earlier periods more importance was given to the society
than to the individual.
• The individual was for the society and not the society for the
individual.
• The head of the society was allowed to exercise a strict
control and autocratic powers over its members. He had,
generally, the powers even over life and the death of the
individuals.
• The modern age has appreciated the importance of the
individual.
• Now, Society is regarded as the means (resources) and the
individual as the end needs.
• The modern society is for the individual and not the individual
for the society.
• Now society aims at the welfare of individuals.

• Modern Society offers individuals the best opportunities for

their self-development. According to modern opinion, social
welfare is nothing but the totality of individual welfare.
 Community
• Community is the entire population held
together by a common system of rules
regulating the contact of life.