Social Organization

Chandima Jayasena
NISD
 Social organization
• In an organized society, there is stability and
change. Stability is the condition of equilibrium
among the parts of society. It is the state of smooth
functioning. During this condition; the social
problems decrease in society. Change is the
dynamic condition of society. An organized society
is also changing for the fulfillment of social needs.
Abrupt changes in the form of revolution disrupt
the existing social order and disorganization occurs
in society.
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• In sociology, a social organization is 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
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• Because of these characteristics of social
organization, people can monitor their everyday
work and involvement in other activities that are
controlled forms of human interaction. These
interactions include: affiliation, collective resources,
substitutability of individuals and recorded control.
These interactions come together to constitute
common features in basic social units such as
family, enterprises, clubs, states, etc. These are
social organizations
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• The examples of organization can easily be understood from
the organs of human body which are technically joined
together called organization of parts in human body. The parts
of a table are prepared separately by the carpenter and then
fitted together in a technical order. This table is an organized
body. It means organization is arranging of parts into its whole.
Similarly, social group is an organization of individuals into a
social unit. The individuals set themselves at their positions
(status) and by interaction (role) they make a social group. It
means they are fitted themselves into the group according to
their positions. This participation individuals into group is
social organization
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• The whole society is a big organization in which
individuals, groups and institutions participate.
It is a vast network of social relationship like
the parts of a watch organized together. The
groups fit themselves in interaction with other
groups giving shape to society by organization:
The process of organization resembles with a
human body, a machine; a factory, an office, a
bank and the human society.