SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN HOUSING DESIGN

1. SOCIOLOGICAL
ASPECTS IN
HOURING
DESING
JANARDHAN
MALAKAPALLI
Architect & Urban Planner

2. What Are Families?
A group of individuals who live together and
cooperate as a unit.
Families possess a genuine love for family
which not simply parents and children but also
relatives and grandparents.

3. What is SOCIETY ?
A group of families organized and working
together for a common goal, interest and beliefs
is called society.
As the people who interact in such a way as to
share a common culture.
The term society can also have a geographical
meaning and refer to people who share a
common culture in a particular location.

4. Family in relation to society?
Families are the foundation in society.
The life and reputation of every society depends on
the behaviour or actions of its families.
When families breakdown and fail to provide the
healthy nurturing we need, the effects impact not
only our own lives but also in our communities.
We suffer the consequences. – The goals of society
may not be achieved if the family fails in achieving its
goals.

5. What is CULTURE?
Culture is that complex whole which includes
knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws and any
other capabilities and habits acquired by man as
a member of society.
Culture is everything that people have- (material
possessions), think (values and attitudes), do
(behaviour patterns) as member of a society.

6. Family in relation to culture?
The family acts as an instrument by which
culture is kept alive.
Through the family, the beliefs, customs and
traditions of the older generation are passed on
to the next generation.

7. Social and Cultural changes in
the family
In the past few decades, the world has seen
major changes in the face of the family.
Continuous and constant changes with the time
has resulted to what sociologist call socio-
cultural changes.
Such changes have caused conflicts in the
family, resulting to problems like separation,
juvenile delinquency, early marriage and drug
addiction.

8. The declining authority of the
male
Before, the absolute control was exercised by the
head of the family, the father.
Now, the father and mother share equal authority
and responsibility.
The sophisticated division of labour – while the
traditional role of the wife is take charge of the
domestic affairs of the home and the early education
of the children, she has now become an accepted
partner in earning the family income.

9. Migration to urban areas and the
frontier areas
There is now a high degree of mobility of the
population as compared to the traditional way of
life.
Better communication, improvement on the
means of transportation and mass education
has attracted people to strike out for a new
places.

10. Forms of MARRIAGES
• MONOGAMY- one man marries only one woman at
a given time.
• POLYGAMY- one person marries two or more
persons of the opposite sex at a given time.
Two forms: –
POLYGYNY- marriage of a man to two or more
women at a given time in which there is no marriage
bond between the wives.
POLYANDRY- the woman is legally married to two or
more men at the same time.

11. Classification of families
Simple or Nuclear Conjugal family- a family
composed of composed of husband and wife
husband, wife and their children.
Extended Family Families that include –relatives
other than parents and children.
Extended Is made up of nuclear or single-parent
families plus other relatives such as
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

12. Regional Characteristics in India.
 Every region in India has its own characteristics and
traditions, like the palm-leaf houses in the south are
nothing similar to the stone houses of the Himalayas or
the houseboats of Kashmir.
 Every state has its own identity which is respected by
people in India and also the world. Family life is equally
varied in Indian states.
 India is a country with many states in which people from
different cultures, religions, castes, etc., live.
 The language, clothing, customs, and traditions of
people are influenced by the respective regions they
reside in.

13. Family Structure
 Most of the families in India are extended ones,
wherein, every member has his/her own role, often
influenced by age and gender.
 Children are cherished and considered to be gifts from
God.
 The family structure in India is typical, wherein, there
are many wedding customs which have to be strongly
followed by everyone.
 Religion, caste, traditional practices, and regional
differences influence family structures. Indians are
more emotionally attached to the members of their
family.

14. Social stratification
 Social stratification refers to a society’s
categorization of its people into rankings of
socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth,
income, race, education, and power.
 Society’s layers are made of people, and society’s
resources are distributed unevenly throughout the
layers.
 The people who have more resources represent
the top layer of the social structure of stratification.
Other groups of people, with progressively fewer
and fewer resources, represent the lower layers of
society.

15. Inequalities between induviduals
 sociologists recognize that social stratification is a society-
wide system that makes inequalities apparent.
 While there are always inequalities between individuals,
sociologists are interested in larger social patterns.
 Stratification is not about individual inequalities, but about
systematic inequalities based on group membership,
classes, and the like.
 No individual, rich or poor, can be blamed for social
inequalities. A person’s social standing is affected by the
structure of society.
 Although individuals may support or fight inequalities, social
stratification is created and supported by society as a whole.

16. Systems of Stratification
 Caste system
 Class system
 Meritocracy
 Status Consistency
A caste system is one in which people are born into
their social standing and will remain in it their whole
lives. People are assigned occupations regardless
of their talents, interests, or potential. There are
virtually no opportunities to improve one’s social
position.

17. A class consists of a set of people who share
similar status with regard to factors like wealth,
income, education, and occupation. Unlike
caste systems, class systems are open. People
are free to gain a different level of education or
employment than their parents. They can also
socialize with and marry members of other
classes, allowing people to move from one
class to another.

18. Meritocracy is another system of social
stratification in which personal effort—or merit—
determines social standing. High levels of effort
will lead to a high social position, and vice
versa. The concept of meritocracy is an ideal—
that is, a society has never existed where social
rank was based purely on merit.