1st Reporter

COMPOSITION AND
NATURE OF SOCIETY
Prepared by: S4-11
Abog, Dassel Rose D. MTh 10:30-12:00
Avila, Mary Joy

Link Used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkerypev1U
https://studypoints.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-is-definition-of-society-and-also.html
file:///C:/Users/LENOVO/Pictures/Types%20of%20Societies.html
WHAT IS SOCIETY?
“video here”
 MEANING
Latin word “socious” meaning association
or companionship. Thus society means ‘A
large group of individual, who are
associate with each other’.
 DEFINITION
•Prof Wright: It is a system of
relationships that exists among the
individuals of the groups.

•A.W. Green: It is the largest group in

which individual have relationships.
 DEFINITION
•Maclver: It is a web of social
relationship, which is always
changing.

•Adam Smith: Society is artificial

advice of Natural economy.
 DEFINITION
•Linton: Any group of people who
have lives and worked together long
enough to get themselves organized
and to think of themselves as a social
unit with well defined limits.
 Types
of
Horticultural Agricultural
Society Pastoral Society
Society Society

Hunting and Feudal Society Industrial Society Post-Industrial

Gathering Society Society
 1. HUNTING AND
GATHERING SOCIETIES
These societies depended upon hunting and
fruit for their food. In other words, "A
hunting and gathering society is one relying
upon for its subsistence on such wild
animals and vegetables as its members can
hunt or gather.“
 2. PASTORAL SOCIETIES
- "A Pastoral society is one relying for its
subsistence primarily on domesticated
herd animals, emerged between 10,000
to 20,000 years ago."
 3. HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETIES
"A horticultural society is one
relying for its subsistence on the
cultivation of domesticated
plants."
4. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
"An agricultural society is one relying
for its subsistence primarily on the
cultivation of crops through the use of
plough and draft animals."
 5. FEUDAL SOCIETY
From the 9th to 15th centuries, feudalism was a
form of society based on ownership of land. Unlike
today's farmers, vassals under feudalism were bound
to cultivating their lord's land. In exchange for
military protection, the lords exploited the peasants
into providing food, crops, crafts, homage, and other
services to the owner of the land
 6. INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
"An industrial society is one relying for
its subsistence primarily on mechanized
production."
7. POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
society is being shaped by the human
mind, aided by computer technology.
Nature of
Society
Nature of Society

Society means likeness

• Is an essential pre-requisite of society.

• The sense of likeness was forced focused in early

society on kinship that is real or supposed blood
relationships.

• In modern societies the conditions of social

likeness have broadened out in the principle of
nationality or one world
Nature of Society

Society also implies difference

• The sense of likeness does not eliminate diversity
or variation

• Society also implies difference and it depends on

the latter as much as on likeness of all people
were exactly alike, their social relationships would
become very much limited.

• They would contribute very little to one another.

Nature of Society

Inter-dependence
• Family, the first society with which we all are
closely associated, is based on the biological inter-
dependence of the sexes.

• None of the two sexes is complete by itself and,

therefore, each seeks fulfillment by the aid of the
other.

• This fact is very much visible in the present world.

Nature of Society

Co-operation
• Without co-operation no society can exist.

• Unless people cooperate with each other, they

cannot live a happy life.

• Family rests on co-operation.

• The members of the family cooperate with one

another to live happy and joyfully.
Composition
of
Society
 THE STUDY OF SCHOOL
AND SOCIAL DIMENSION
“School is the most important agency of
e d u c a t i o n ”.
– Yo g e n d r a S h a r m a
SCHOOL AS THE PRIMARY EDUCATIVE AGENCY OF
ALL SOCIETIES

• “School” is derived from the Greek word skhole, meaning

“leisure”
-Sharma (2000)

• School is a special environment, where a certain quality of

life and certain types od activities and occupations are
provided with the object of securing the child’s
development along desirable lines.
-John Dewey
SCHOOL AS THE PRIMARY EDUCATIVE AGENCY OF
ALL SOCIETIES

• Schools are institutions developed by civilized man for the

purpose of aiding in the preparation of the young to be
well adjusted and efficient members of the society
-J.S Ross

• School are institutions, which require full-time attendance

of specific age groups in teachers-supervised classrooms
for study of graded curricula
-Everett Reimer
 THE NEED FOR A SYSTEMATIC
STUDY OF SCHOOL

“The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new

places but to have other eyes.”
-Marcel Proust
 THE INTERDISCIPLINARY
ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL

-Numerous fields gave put interest in schools such as

philosophy, psychology, law, history, economics, and
political science, thus making the study of schools
interdisciplinary.
DEFINING SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION, ITS
CONTEXT AND PURPOSE

-it is one course studies human diversity with the

commitment of promoting social literacy, social
competence and social efficiency to pre-service
teachers and teachers practioners.
Human diversity – understanding the differences and
uniqueness of individuals.

Social Literacy – possessing the skills to simply

recognize and accept the differences of individuals
without making value judgments.
-Howitt et al. (2002)
Social Competence – possessing the social, emotional
and intellectual skills and behaviors needed to succeed
as a member of society and the world.
-Gale Group (2009)

Social efficiency – the condition characterized by valuing

human diversity, developing respectful and responsible
behaviors, flexibility, and adaptability of leaners in a
complex, ill-structure, and rapidly changing environment.
-Spiro (1991)
Social Competence – possessing the social, emotional
and intellectual skills and behaviors needed to succeed
as a member of society and the world.
-Gale Group (2009)

Social efficiency – the condition characterized by valuing

human diversity, developing respectful and responsible
behaviors, flexibility, and adaptability of leaners in a
complex, ill-structure, and rapidly changing environment.
-Spiro (1991)