1 / 19

What is a Society

What is a Society. Defenition. A society or a human society is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations such as social status , roles and social networks. Related.

jeremyc
Download Presentation

What is a Society

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What is a Society

  2. Defenition • A society or a human society is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations such as social status, roles and social networks

  3. Related • an association or connection between two or more people that may range from fleeting (a short time) to enduring (a long time)

  4. Social Status • social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society (one's social position). It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc.

  5. Roles • or a social role is a set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as viewed by people in a social situation. It is an expected or changing behavior and may have a given individual social status or social position.

  6. Social Networks • is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige

  7. More on Society • Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals sharing a distinctive culture and institutions.

  8. Culture • The entire range of customs, beliefs, social forms and material traits of a religious, social or racial group or in a given time period.

  9. Culture Also Means • the total of all knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, and material objects acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving

  10. Institutions • are structures and mechanisms of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human group

  11. Final Note • a society is a group of individuals defined by the bounds of functional interdependence, possibly comprising characteristics such as national or cultural identity, social freedom, language or hierarchical organization

More Related