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Social Organization

Social organization refers to the process by which people group together to achieve common goals. It involves patterns of relationships between individuals and social groups with characteristics like leadership structure and division of labor. These interactions constitute basic social units like families and clubs. Principles of social organization include practical aspects, social consciousness, communication, language, proximity, and moral standards that govern conduct within a group. Key elements of social organization are a common goal, acceptance of roles and status, group norms and sanctions to enforce them. Types of social descent include matrilineal, patrilineal, bilateral, and double descent systems.

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Social Organization

Social organization refers to the process by which people group together to achieve common goals. It involves patterns of relationships between individuals and social groups with characteristics like leadership structure and division of labor. These interactions constitute basic social units like families and clubs. Principles of social organization include practical aspects, social consciousness, communication, language, proximity, and moral standards that govern conduct within a group. Key elements of social organization are a common goal, acceptance of roles and status, group norms and sanctions to enforce them. Types of social descent include matrilineal, patrilineal, bilateral, and double descent systems.

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SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
 The process by which people group themselves together for the purpose of
obtaining a common goal.
 A pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups.

Characteristics of social organization can include qualities such as sexual


composition, spatiotemporal cohesion, leadership, structure, division of
labor, communication systems, and so on.
Because of this characteristics of social organization, people can monitor their
everyday work and involvement in other activities that are controlled forms of
human interaction. This interactions come together to constitute common
features in basic social units such as family, enterprises, clubs, or states.
PRINCIPLES OF GROUPING
1. Practical aspects of organization
2. Social consciousness and social feeling
3. Communication
4. Language and culture
5. Contiguity
6. The lower grades of social organization: The Crowd
7. Intermediate grades of social organization: The Mob
8. The higher grades of social organization
9. Moral organization: Types of Conduct
10.Moral organization: Standards of Conduct
11. Laws and convention
ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
 A Goal:
- the member of an organization are interrelated to each other fo the pursuit of a common goal.

 Preparedness to accept one's role and status:


- organization is an arrangement of persons and parts.
- by arrangement is meant that every member of the organization has an assigned role, a
position and status.

 Norms and More:


- every organization has it's norms and mores which control each members.
- an organization can function smoothly if its members follow the organization norms.

 Sanctions:
- if the member does not follow the norms he is compelled to follow them through sanctions
(conditions) which may range from warning to physical punishment.
CLANS

• MATRILINEAL CLAN
 the tracing descent through the
female line. it may also correlate with
a societal system in which each
person is identified with their
matriline- their mother's lineage- and
which van involve the inheritance of
property and/or titles.
• PATRILINEAL CLAN
 male line, the spear side or agnatic
kinship, is a common kinship system
in which an individual's family
membership derives from and is
recorded through his or her father's
lineage. It generally involves the
inheritance of property, rights, names,
or titles by persons related through
male kin.
COGNATIC DESCENT

 BILATERAL DESCENT
 a system of family lineage in
which the relatives on mother's
side and father's side are equally
important for emotional ties or
for transfer of property or wealth.
It is a family arrangement where
descent and inheritance are
passed equally through both
parents.
DOUBLE DESCENT
 refers to societies in which both
the patrilineal and matrilineal
descent group are recognized. In
these societies an individual
affiliates for some purposes with
a group of patrilineal kinsmen
and for other purposes with a
group of matrilineal kinsmen.

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