elements of community definitions, community, family , groups

1. ELEMENTS OF
SOCIETY
Module 1 - SESSION 2
FACULTY : AR MAHIIMA J
DATE: 26-08-19

2. SYLLABUS BLUEPRINT :
SOCIOLOGY & BUILDING
ECONOMICS
MODULE 1
Introduction to
Sociology
Elements of society
MODULE 2
communities
Urban and rural
communities
Cities and society
Social research
MODULE 3
Economics
Economic
organization of society
MODULE 4
Economics and the
market
MODULE 5
Urban land values
Building costs
Today

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Definitions of sociological terms- Society, community, family,
culture
• Difference between society and community
• Different family structures and architectural responses to
different family types- in and outside India (examination of
different housing typologies responding to different family
types – traditional and contemporary)
• Relation between culture and built form (exploration of
architectural examples.)

4. DEFINITIONS
GROUP :
• The term group is an amorphous one and can refer to a wide variety of gatherings,
from just two people (think about a “group project” in school when you partner
with another student), a club, a regular gathering of friends, or people who work
together or share a hobby.
• In short, the term refers to any collection of at least two people who interact with
some frequency and who share a sense that their identity is somehow aligned with
the group

5. DEFINITIO
NS
SOCEITY :
• A society can be called homogeneous (e.g. Arab nation, Japan) or heterogeneous (e.g. India, US) based on
the elements of diversity. Practically no well-developed society across the world can be called homogeneous
as some form of difference do exist in all of them.
• A group of people, who interact with one another, and who share a common culture is what sociologists
call a society. Sociologists study all aspects and levels of society.
• Sociologists working from the micro-level study small groups and individual interactions, while those
using macro-level analysis look at trends among and between large groups and societies.
• “ Society is the complex of organized
associations and institutions with a
community”. – G.D.M. Cole
• Society is “ a web of social relationship”. –
MacIver

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF
• Society consists of people
• Mutual Interaction and Mutual Awareness
• Society depends on Likeness
• Society rest on Difference too
• Co-operation and Division of Labor
• Society implies Interdependence also
• Society is dynamic
• Social control
• Culture
• Gregarious nature of Man- “Man is a Social Animal”

7. DEFINITIONS
COMMUNITY
• A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things in an area)
that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
• The people living in one particular area or people who are considered as
a unit because of their common interests, social group, or nationality.
• Community is “ a social group with some degree of “we-feeling” and living in a
given area” – Bogardus
• Community is “ the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects of
social life” – Kinsley Davis
https://www.facebook.com/North-Marietta-
Neighborhood-Community-Garden-
127213277359939/

8. MAIN ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITY
• The main bases of community are:
• Locality: A community is a territorial group. It occupies some geographical
area. Locality is the physical basis of community. Living together facilitates
people to develop social contacts, give protection, safety and security. Further,
the very physical conditions may influence social life to a great extent.
• Community Sentiment: It means a feeling of belonging together. The
members must be aware of their staying together and sharing common
interest. The members develop a sense of “we-feeling”. It means a kind of
identification with the group. Without a sense of identification, a sense of
awareness, a sense of living and sharing some common interest in life , there
can not be any community.
• Stability, Naturalness, Size of community, Regulation of Relations
are other aspects of a community

9. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIETY
AND COMMUNITY

10. DEFINITIONS
CULTURE :
• The term culture refers to the group’s shared practices, values, and
beliefs. Culture encompasses a group’s way of life, from routine,
everyday interactions to the most important parts of group members'
lives.
• It includes everything produced by a society, including all of the social
rules. Sociologists often study culture using the sociological
imagination, which pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills described as an
awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and
experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and
perceptions.
• It’s a way of seeing our own and other people’s behavior in relationship
to history and social structure (1959).

11. DEFINITIONS
FAMILY
• A group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and their
children
• The basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children
• Social unit of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and having
a shared commitment to the mutual relationship. See also household.
• Any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional
family

12. DIFFERENT FAMILY STRUCTURES AND
ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSES TO DIFFERENT
FAMILY TYPES- IN AND OUTSIDE INDIA
• Family structure has changed dramatically over
the last 50 years.
• Different family type (there are six main ones
that people agree on) has a unique family
dynamic.
• There are six specific types of family structures
identified by society today.

13. Nuclear Family Single Parent Extended Family
Childless Family Stepfamily Grandparent Family
Six specific types of family structures identified by
society today

14. • “The video clips from movie ” – a sociological “Lens ’
• Individual Activity
• Observe & note from videos –
• examination of different housing typologies corresponding to different family
types – traditional and contemporary, different family types and their culture .
Relation between culture and built form.
• Exploration of architectural examples with pictures.
• Format : Report ( describe the typology wrt family & culture) &
sketch plates – A4 size ; Submit in stick file
ACTIVITY TIME
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15. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/family.h
tml
• https://www.merriam webster.com/dictionary/family
• https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/family/there-are-6-
different-family-types-and-each-one-has-a-unique-
family-dynamic/
• http://www.sss10.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2015/07/SSS10_Proceedings_002.pdf