SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION

1. Concept Of Society

2. The Concept of Society
Stated most simply, society is the association of men. It is
the product of man’s instinctive desire to live together.
Society refers to the complex network of relationship within
which most of humanity lives.
R.M. McIver says, “whenever living beings enter
into or maintain, willed relations with one another,
there society exist”.

3. The Primary Group
In Primary group
relationship, the total
personality of the human
being is taken into account.
The relationship are intimate
and face to face.

4. The Primary Group
In Primary group
relationship, the total
personality of the human
being is taken into account.
The relationship are intimate
and face to face.

5. Communication is profound
and strong, and personal
satisfactions are of utmost
important. A person in a
primary group cannot be
replaced by another person.

7. Example of Primary Group
1. Family
2. Basketball Team
3. A Pair of Lover
Family Relationships are most
likely the most important of all
our group relationship.

8. The idea of “Primary group”
(1957) who described it as
follows.
1. Primary Groups are
characterized by intimate
face to face association and
cooperation.

9. 2. Primary Group consists of
small face to face structures
such as family and friendship
groups where personalities
fuse into a common whole.
These are considered the
building blocks of the larger
society.

10. 3. Though there are
relationships where a person
gets to know another
intimately and becomes very
friendly through indirect
contacts as may be found
between pen-pals or phone-
pals.

11. Secondary Group Relationship
This relationship involves a reaction to only
a part of the individual’s personality.

12. The person’s importance to
the group is the function that
he or she performs in the
group. Secondary group is
the function that he or she
performs in the group.

13. Secondary Groups tend to
impose patterns of
conformity on their
members. Hence, they serve
to offset the prejudices or
vested control of the
immediate locality.

14. Contacts in Secondary groups
may be face-to-face, indirect,
or transitory. The
relationships are important
only to facilitate the
realization of one’s end or
objectives.

15. There are advantages in
maintaining secondary relations
in large scale establishments. In
matters of appointment and
promotion, the merit system
may be used to guarantee
fairness, fair treatment and
competence.

16. In-Groups and Out-Groups
Groups may be classified as in-
group and out-group when
taking into consideration the
individual’s sense of
belongingness in a group.

17. These two groups are not
actually groups but a variety
of relationship that exist in
the mind as a person who
learns to use the pronouns
“we” referring to the in-group
and “they” referring to the
out-group.

18. Those who belong consider
themselves as forming a
social unit. The unit has
boundaries that separate the
word “we” from “they” that
sometimes we can hear these
phrases, “we are in,” “they
are out”.

19. The in-group is the group with
which the individual identifies
and which gives him a sense
of belonging, solidarity,
camaraderie, esprit de corps,
and a protective attitude
toward the other members.

20. They know each other intimately and
share common norms, activities,
goals, and background. To bring out
the feeling of togetherness, they use
expressions like: “We are engaged in
this activities,” “we are loyal to each
other and help one another, and “we
work for the welfare of the society.”

21. The out-group is generally viewed
as the outsiders by the in-group.
He may be aware of its
existence.
Often to the feelings of
strangeness, dislikes, avoidance,
antagonism, indifference toward
the out-group.