Micro Social Institutions
Social Sciences

Micro Social Institutions


The " Society" is usually used to designate the members of specific in- groups, persons rather than the social relationships of those persons. Thus we speak of a Harijan speak of Ar ya Samaj or Brahman Samaj. A society is intangible; it is " a process rather than a thing, motion rather the structure ".
Some definitions are as follows :-
  • " A number of like - minded individuals, who know and enjoy their like - mindedness, and are, therefore, able to work together for common ends. " - Giddings
  • " Society is a system of usages and procedures, authority and mutual aid, of many groupings and divisions, of controls of human behaviour and of liberties. " - MacIver and Page
  • " A soceity is the larger group to which any individual belongs. " - Green
Thus, soceity is to be interpreted in a wider sense. It is both a structural and functional organization. It consists in the mutual interactions and mutual interrelations of the individuals but it is also a structure formed by these relations. It is a pattern, a system and not the people . Those who define it as a group of people interpret it in terms of 'A Society ' as distinguished from 'Socity'.




- Three Concepts Of Social Structure
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- Fissioning Community
What is a community, and what forces exist to either preserve the strands of community or to erode those strands? To start, a community is a population within a defined geographical space. It is a group of people who have their own interests, identities,...

- The Mode Of Production As Society's Structure
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- The Study Of Human Society
Human beings is the social animals and human beings stand out as distinct species. Human beings claim man alone has a soul, has higher level of intelligence, has a speaking ability, has sociability and hence civilized from the sociological point of view...

- Sociology Related With Other Sciences
Sociology is the wider and broader in scope and it was related or interlinked with many others social sciences. Sociology is the science of the society and in society many kinds of things were happens to fulfilled the whole society and there is co-operation...



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