Society can be defined in three main ways: 1) As a large group of people who live together in an organized way and make decisions about how to do things and share work. 2) As an organization that people can join to share similar interests. 3) As an aggregate of people living in a limited geographical area with a common way of living.

2. The term has been derived from a
Latin word “socious” that means
association or companionship.
Thus society means a larger group of
individuals who are associated with
each other.

3. Society noun (People)
A large group of people who live
together in an organized way,
making decisions about how to do
things and sharing the work
that needs to be done.
All the people in a country, or in
several similar countries, can be
referred to as a society: (Cambridge
Dictionary )

4. Society noun (Organization)
An organization to which people
who share similar interests can belong:
(Cambridge dictionary)
the School debating society
the Royal Society for the Protection
of Birds

5. According to Linton
“Any group of people who have lived
and worked together long enough to get
themselves organized and to think of
themselves as a social unit with well
defined limits”
Generally a society is an aggregate of
people living in a limited geographical
boundary having a common way of
living.

6. Society is made up of individuals who
have agreed to work together for mutual
benefit. It can be a very broad term, as
we can make generalizations about
what the whole of Western society
believes, or it can be a very narrow
definition, describing only a small
group of people within a given
community.

7. Prof. Wright opines “ it is a system of
relationships that exists amongst the
individuals of the group.
A.W.Green defines “ it is the largest
group in which individuals have
relationship.

8. But no matter the size, and no
matter the link that binds a society
together, be it religious,
geographic, professional or
economic, society is shaped by the
relationships between individuals.

9. A big aggregate of people.
Living together since very long.
Having a sense of belonging to one
another.
More or less a permanent association.
Having a common culture.

10.  Society is a large aggregate of people
while community is comparatively a
small group of people.
 Society has its limited geographical
boundary while community has no
such rigidity to area.

11.  The people in a society form a
loose group, whereas in
community they have close social
interactions.
 A sense of belonging is found in
the people of community whereas
it is not common in people of the
society.
 The cooperation and mutual aid
are more effective in community
than in the people of a society.

12. Social structure is the organized set of social
institutions and patterns of traditional
relationships that together compose
society.
The major social institutions recognized by
sociologists include family, religion,
education, media, law, politics, and
economy.

13. We see these as distinct
institutions that are interrelated
and interdependent, and together
help compose the overarching
social structure of a society.

14. Young and Mack:
“A role is the function of a status”
Duncan Mitchell:
“A social role is the expected behavior
associated with a social position”
Calhoun, Light and Keller:
“A set of behaviors, attitudes, obligations,
privileges expected of anyone who
occupies a particular status”

15. The individual in a society has been
assigned certain rights and duties
constituting status.
Role and status are inseparable with
each other. A change in role directly
affects status and vice versa.
For example one can be a teacher in
school, a wife of her husband, a mother
of her children, a daughter of her
parents, a member of a society etc.

16. The distribution of some of the roles is
on the basis of certain traits like sex,
age, race, caste, and family, which are
acquired by birth. These are called
ascribed roles.
There are other roles which depend
upon individuals ability. These are
achieved roles such as teacher,
doctor, social worker etc.

17. Sociology is one of the social sciences
like economics, political science, history,
psychology, and others.
Sociology studies group behavior in
human society. How social groups are
formed? Which type of group products
you anticipate and what you actually
observe? How the groups act and reacts
toward one another and with what
results: are all the questions in the
subject matter of sociology.

18. Groups in interrelation develop
society.
In a society not one or two types of
groups are joined together but huge
network of various groups is
interwoven thus a society is an
aggregate of individuals.
To be more clear society is a building
and individuals its bricks.

19. Thus individual is part of the social
groups and hence part of the society.
His nature of behavior, habits and
attitudes are directly related with
society.
Group life is the source from which he
derives all his behaviors by being
interrelated with the people.
Therefore the study of individual lies
in the domain of sociology to the
extent that his behavior is affected by
group life of the society.

20. Status and role are the related concepts
in such a way that one exists with the
other. A professor enjoys this status in
college due to his roles of teaching class
students.
A physician is given due status in
community due to his role of treating the
patients. If he performs his role with full
attention and deep study he is awarded
higher status in the people. It means
status depends upon role performance.

21. Interaction is a social process between
two or more than two persons. It is
always reciprocal in nature. It can be
called a stimulus-response condition
among the individuals.
When two person talk to each other,
when there is a correspondence
through letter between two persons, a
doctor attends a patients, a customer
buys a thing from a shopkeeper are all
forms of social interactions.

22. Dawson and Gettyes says:
“It is a process by which men inter penetrate the
minds of each other”.
Merrill opines:
“Social interaction is the general process whereby
two or more persons are in a meaningful contact
as a result of which their behavior is modified
however slightly”.
Corkiness suggests:
“Social interaction is such a process which
influences the overt behavior or state of mind of
the individuals”.

23. • Two or more than two person
• Reciprocal relationship among them
• Influence on the event, behavior,
mind of the persons.

24. • Between individual and individual
• Between individual and group
• Between group and group