As a concept it is used to described the structured relations and institutions. among a large number of community of people which cannot be reduced to a simple collection of aggregation of individuals.
Society as a concept
- Society is formally defined as a constituting a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside. their area, and participate ia a common culture.
Society as a Facticity
- Or God is supposed to possess the tripartite.
Deity
(three-fold) powers reserved for Him alone
-omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence
3 Classical Theories of the origin of society are:
1 Structural-functional.
2 conflict Theory.
3 Symbolic Interactionism
school of thought looks at social order. It argues that society is made possible by cooperation and interdependence
Structural Functionalism
- instead of putting importance to social order, the conflict perspective sees society as an arena.
Conflict Theory
Looks at society as a competition for limited sources.
Conflict theory
-Society is composed of people interacting through the use of symbol.
Symbolic Interactionism
• It doesn’t deal with order of conflict, it explores the issues of meaning-making.
Symbolic interactionism
- these are visible, written and understood by all
Written Rules
- these rules are invisible and unwritten
Unwritten Rules
culture is the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time
Culture as a concept by Cambridge Endictionary
Culture is a central concept in
Anthropology
is an organized group of learned responses, the individual is a living organism capable of independent thought, feeling, I action but his dependence is limited.
culture
cannot exist apart from culture. A society is always made of persons and their groupings. People carry and transmit. culture. No culture can exist except as it is embodied in a human society
society
Characteristics of culture.
1 culture is social because it is the product of behavior
2 Culture varies from society to society.
3 Culture is shared.
4 Culture is learned.
5 Culture is transmitted among members. of society.
6 Culture is continuous and cumulative.
7 Culture is gratifying and idealistic.
Functions of culture
1 Culture defines situations.
2 Culture defines attitudes, values, and goals
3 Culture defines myths, legends, and supernatural
4 cuture provides behavior patterns.
Modes of Acquiring culture.
1 Imitation
2 Indoctrination of suggestion
3 Conditioning
Children and adults alike have the tendency to imitate the values, attitudes, language and all other things. in their social environment
Imitation
- This may take the form of formal. training informal teaching. Formally, the person learns from school. in formally, he may acquire those behaviors from listening or watching, reading, attending training activities or through interaction.
Indoctrination or suggestion
-It can be reinforced through reward and punishment.
Conditioning
Adaption of culture.
1 Parallelism
2 diffusion
3 convergence
4 fission
5 acculturation
6 Assimilation
7 Accomodation
-means that the same culture may take place in two or more different places.
Parallelism
