CONCEPT OF SOCIETY, HOW SOCIOLOGIST VIEW SOCIETY,

SOCIOLOGIST PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE, GENERAL

CHARACTERISTIC OF SOCIETY, CONCEPT OF POLITICS,
CHARACTERISTIC OF POLITICS
Jairah Denila/ Maureen Miguel /Stephaney Jenne Permias
Rein Shazper Alipo-on / Shawn Serencio / Brendan Charles Potane
CONCEPT OF SOCIETY
The general public in which we live decides everything from
the food we eat to the decisions we make. The word society
comes from the latin root socius, signifying "buddy" or "being
with others." A general public comprises of individuals who
share a region, who communicate with one another, and who
share a culture. A few social orders are, indeed, gatherings of
individuals joined by fellowship or normal interests.
Our particular social orders show us how to act, what to
accept, and how we'll be rebuffed in the event that we don't
keep the laws or customs set up. Furthermore, a Society is a
gathering of individuals whose individuals associate, dwell in a
quantifiable region, and offer a culture. What's more, a society
is a social framework that shares a topographical domain, a
typical culture, and a lifestyle (Johnson 1996)."
HOW SOCIOLOGISTS VIEW SOCIETY?
Sociologists utilize this term from a particular perspective
and in an exact manner. In sociologies since nineteenth
century there is a long discussion about the utilization of
the idea 'society'. It was interpreted as meaning as tissues
of habits and customs that hold a gathering of individuals
together. In some sense, 'society addressed something
more suffering and more profound than the 'state', less
manipu-lative and absolutely subtler.
Sociologists have characterized society with two points:

1. In conceptual terms, 2. In substantial terms, as

as an organization of an assortment of
connections between individuals or an
individuals or between association of people.
gatherings.
 A previous social researcher, L.T. Hobhouse (1908) characterized
society as "tissues of connections". R.M. Maclver (1937) likewise
characterized it in pretty much similar terms as "web of social
relations which is continually evolving".

MacIver, alongside his co-essayist Charles Page, later on characterized it in

his new book Society: An Introductory Analysis (1949) subsequently: "It
(society) is an arrangement of uses and techniques, of power and shared
guide, of numerous groupings and divisions, of controls of human conduct
and of freedoms. This steadily changing, complex framework we call society."
For Maclver and Page, society is a theoretical element
as they state, "We might see individuals yet can't see
society or social construction however just its outer
angles society is unmistakable from actual reality".
SOCIOLOGISTS PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
 Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
"I am the Founder of Sociology, I
coined the word sociology from
the Latin word Socius' and the
Greek word logos' to describe
the science of social life Society
is something other than the sum
of individual actions."
 Karl Marx (1818-1883)
"I developed a complex theory of
history and society which has great
influenced the modern sociology. Three
of my contributions to social theories
are: (1) the organic totality of society,
(2) the relative importance of the
economic sector, and (3) the historical
process of
 George Simmel (1858-1916)

"For me, society was the

patterned interactions among
members of a group, the sum of
responses to ordinary life
events."
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIETY
 ✅SOCIETY IS ABSTRACT
- IF SOCIETY IS SEEN AS A WEB OF SOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS, IT IS DISTINCT FROM WHAT
WE CAN SEE THROUGH OUR FACULTIES.
MACLVER CONTENDED, "WE MIGHT SEE
INDIVIDUALS YET CAN'T SEE SOCIETY OR
SOCIAL DESIGN, YET JUST ITS SOLITARY
OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES"
 ✅LIKENESS AND DIFFERENCE IN SOCIETY
-SOCIETY INVOLVES BOTH LIKENESS AND
DIFFERENCE. IF PEOPLE WERE EXACTLY
ALIKE, THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WOULD BE
LIMITED WITH LITTLE GIVE-AND-TAKE AND
RECIPROCITY.
 ✅COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN SOCIETY
-SOCIETY DEPENDS ON COOPERATION BUT
DUE TO DIFFERENCES, THERE IS STRUGGLE
AMONG INDIVIDUALS. MACIVER AND PAGE
SAW THAT "SOCIETY IS COOPERATION
CROSSED BY CONFLICT".
 ✅SOCIETY IS A PROCESS NOT A PRODUCT
-"SOCIETY EXISTS JUST AS A PERIOD
ARRANGEMENT. IT IS BECOMING, NOT A BEING, AN
INTERACTION AND NOT AN ITEM" (MACLVER AND
PAGE, 1956). SOMEWHAT THE EQUIVALENT IS TRUE
NOT JUST OF MATERIAL RELICS OF MAN’S PAST
CULTURE BUT EVEN OF HIS UNIMPORTANT SOCIAL
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
✅SOCIETY IS A SYSTEM OF STRATIFICATION:
SOCIETY GIVES AN ARRANGEMENT OF
DEFINITION OF SITUATIONS WITH CLASSES
THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS A
MODERATELY STEADY AND UNMISTAKABLE
SITUATION IN THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION.
CHARACTERISTICS OF POLITICS
USE OR THREAT OF USE OF LEGAL FORCE
It allows the legal authority to use
force. If David Easton speaks of
authoritative allocation of values",
Dahl of "Power,“rule"and
authority”. All these definitions
imply that legal authority can use
force to compel anybody to obey
its orders
INTERACTION
“The political system refers to the
interactions within independent
societies that facilitate integration and
adaptation through employment,
threat of employment, or legitimate
physical compulsion, including
government institutions.
INDEPENDENCE OF PARTS

Changes in one component of a

system affect all other components
and the system as a whole, as seen in
political systems with broad base
parties and mass media
CONCEPT OF POLITICS
 CONCEPT OF POLITICS

The term "politics", is gotten from the Greek

word "POLIS", which implies the CITY STATE
according to Greek Rationalist, Politics was a
subject which managed all the exercises and
undertakings of the city state.
 CONCEPT OF POLITICS

City state was a comprehensive term, as the

old Greeks saw no difference amongst the
state and the Government on one hand, and
State and Society on the other.
 CONCEPT OF POLITICS

Politics is the art of government, the

activity of control inside the society
through the setting on and authorization of
aggregate choices.
 CONCEPT OF POLITICS

The organizations of the express (the mechanical

assembly of the public authority, the courts, the police,
the military, the general public security framework thus
forward) can be viewed as "public" as in they are
answerable for aggregate association of the local area
life.
 THANK YOU FOR
Listening
GROUP 2 UCSP
STEM 11-EINSTEIN
I. MULTIPLE CHOICES
Directions: Read each question
carefully. Write the letter of the
correct answer.
1. HOW SOCIOLOGISTS VIEW SOCIETY?

A). SOCIOLOGISTS VIEW SOCIETY AS AN ASSOCIATION

ORGANIZED BY MEN.
B). SOCIOLOGISTS UTILIZE THIS TERM FROM A
PARTICULAR PERSPECTIVE AND IN AN EXACT MANNER.
C). BOTH A AND B
D). NONE OF THE ABOVE
2. WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF POLITICS?

A). POLITICS IS GOTTEN FROM THE GREEK WORD "POLIS"

WHICH IMPLIES THE CITY STATE ACCORDING TO GREEK
RATIONALIST
B). POLITICS IS NOT GOTTEN FROM THE GREEK WORD
POLIS IT GOTTEN TO THE GREEK WORD "POLISIPICS"
C). POLITICS HAS NO GREEK WORD
D). POLITICS CAME FROM SOCIOLOGIST PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVE
3. WHO SAID THIS: "FOR ME, SOCIETY WAS THE PATTERNED
INTERACTIONS AMONG MEMBERS OF A GROUP, THE SUM
OF RESPONSES TO ORDINARY LIFE EVENTS."

A). AUGUSTE COMTE

B). KARL MARX
C). GEORGE SIMMEL
D). MAX WEBER
4. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
OF SOCIETY, EXCEPT.

I. LIKENESS AND DIFFERENCE

II. COOPERATION AND CONFLICT
111.A SYSTEM OF STRATIFICATION
IV. AN ASSORTMENT OF INDIVIDUALS

A. I B. II C. III D. IV
5. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES THE CONCEPT
OF "USE OR THREAT OF USE OF LEGAL FORCE" IN POLITICS?

A). THE ABILITY OF CITIZENS TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST

GOVERNMENT ACTION
B). THE LEGAL AUTHORITY OF A GOVERNMENT TO COMPEL
OBEDIENCE THROUGH THE USE OR THREAT OF FORCE
C). THE POWER OF THE MEDIA TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION
AND POLICY.
D). THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN ORGANIZING
ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS.
II. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: identify what
is being asked on the
following questions
1. "I AM THE FOUNDER OF SOCIOLOGY; I COINED
THE WORD SOCIOLOGY FROM THE LATIN WORD
'SOCIOUS' AND THE GREEK WORD 'LOGOS' TO
DESCRIBE THE SCIENCE OF SOCIAL LIFE." SOCIETY
IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE SUM OF
INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS. "

 HO IS THE PROPONENT OF THIS PHILOSOPHICAL

W
PERSPECTIVE?
2. "I DEVELOPED A COMPLEX THEORY OF HISTORY
AND SOCIETY WHICH HAS GREAT INFLUENCED
THE MODERN SOCIOLOGY. THREE OF MY
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIAL THEORIES ARE: (1) THE
ORGANIC TOTALITY OF SOCIETY, (2) THE RELATIVE
IMPORTANCE OF THE ECONOMIC SECTOR, AND (3)
THE HISTORICAL PROCESS OF"

 HO IS THE PROPONENT OF THIS PHILOSOPHICAL

W
PERSPECTIVE?
3. "FOR ME, SOCIETY WAS THE PATTERNED
INTERACTIONS AMONG MEMBERS OF A GROUP,
THE SUM OF RESPONSES TO ORDINARY LIFE
EVENTS."

 HO IS THE PROPONENT OF THIS PHILOSOPHICAL

W
PERSPECTIVE?
4. AN ORGANIZATION OF CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS OR BETWEEN
GATHERINGS.

WHAT CHARACTERIZED SOCIETY IS THIS?

5. AN ASSORTMENT OF INDIVIDUALS OR
AN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE

 HAT
W CHARACTERIZED SOCIETY IS
THIS?
"The struggle is part of
the journey"
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