Society is organized into groups with common rules and institutions like the family. There are two main types of social groups: primary and secondary. Primary groups like family are characterized by personal, lasting relationships and unconditional bonds. Secondary groups like work colleagues are more formal and task-oriented with conditional relationships that typically do not extend beyond the group. Social organization involves the coordination of these various groups within the cultural, legal/political, and economic spheres.

1. SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS: GROUPS
WITHIN SOCIETY (PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY)
PREPARED BY: MARICEL P. LLOREN, LPT

2. HOW SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED
• People have organized themselves
into groups with common rules of
living. The organization of such a
group is called society. Different
institutions are found in every
community, such as the family,
kin relationships, childcare, and
division of work based on gender
and age.

3. • All societies, small or large,
are organized around an
uneven division of labor and
decision-making.
• Present societies are
expected to provide
protection, economic
security, law and order, and a
sense of belonging to their
members.

4. •Societies usually adapt to
changes around them, like
in the environment or in
technology.
•Most changes happen
slowly, but some significant
events such as war or
revolution can completely

5. THE THREEFOLD NATURE OF SOCIAL LIFE
•Applying Goethe’s Method to
social life, Rudolf Steiner thought
that if we apply the
phenomenological, participatory
method to human social life as a
multifaceted, multilayered whole,
we can distinguish three different

6. THREE DIFFERENT SPHERES OF ACTIVITY:
1. CULTURAL– everything involving the growth
and expression of the human spirit: education,
art, science, religion, journalism, and publishing
2. LEGAL OR POLITICAL– involving human rights
and relationships between people and
organizations
3. ECONOMIC– having to do with the production,
distribution, and consumption of goods and
services

7. •Human society, Steiner
claimed, will only flourish if
these three spheres are
recognized and each is
organized according to its
own inherent principles,
dynamics, and ideals.

8. SOCIAL GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
• Sometimes, organization refers to
associational groups. It includes
corporations, armies, schools, and banks.
• Society composes many of such
organizations.
• A state is considered as a political
organization, or school may represent an
educational organization, and so on. They
are all social organizations.

9. •Organization is a state of being
or a condition in which various
institutions in society are
functioning by their recognized
or implied purposes (Elliott and
Merrill, 1950).

10. •Social organization or social
system refers to the
interdependence of parts in
groups.
•These groups may differ in size
and nature. it makes possible
the complex activities where
members of a complex society

11. GROUPS WITHIN SOCIETY
Social groups consist of two or
more individuals who identify with
one another and regularly interact
as a result of shared norms,
values, and expectations. Being in
a group entails realizations of
activities and events in one's life
that help people build and define
their stories, interests, and

12. Different group categorization exists in
society. categories include primary and
secondary groups, in-groups and out-
groups and reference groups.

13. PRIMARY GROUP
• First formulated by Charles Horton
Cooley, the concept of a primary group
is an essential unit of social
organization and social life.
• A primary group is characterized by
personal and lasting relationships with
its members.

14. •It has been identified that
relationships in a primary type
of team is unconditional and
not prearranged.
•Setting aside family relations,
members of primary groups
share lots of things in
common, like interests,

15. •The best example of a primary
group is the nuclear family.
•Relationships and attachments
organized in this group are
permanent as one's identity,
lifestyle, and stories are tied to
this group.
•A group of close friends is

16. •The term 'primary' is used with these
groups because they are the primary
or main source of socialization and
relationships.
• Relationships in primary groups give
us security, love, and companionship.
• We also learn norms and values from
our family and friends that stay with
us for most of our lives.

18. SECONDARY GROUP
• By contrast, secondary groups are formal,
small or large, and usually short term.
these groups are typically found at work
and school.
• An example of this group is a political
party organized to plan the best campaign
for the election. Members of the board
meet infrequently and for only a short
period.

19. • Team members may have some similar
interests, but the main purpose of the
group is on the task instead of the
relationships.

20.  CLASSROOM AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
ARE OTHER EXAMPLES OF A SECONDARY
GROUP.
• Sometimes, secondary groups
become informal, and members of
the team get to know each other
well; however, even if their
friendships exist in a limited time,
they will not necessarily remain
close beyond.

21. • Unlike the primary group, members
play their roles in a secondary group
based on arranged and conditional
contract. members of this group need
not to convene based on shared
interests or personalities.