2. SOCIAL INTERACTION AND SOCIALIZATION:
“Social interaction is an exchange between two or
more individuals.” It is the building block of a
society.
Social interaction can be studied between
two(dyads),three(triads) or larger social groups.
By interacting with one another, people design
rules, institutions and systems within which they
seek to live.
3. SOCIALIZATION:
Socialization is the term sociologists use to
describe the process by which people learn their
culture. Socialization occur in societies; big or
small, simple or complex, pre-industrial or
industrial.
Without socialization we could not learn our culture
and without culture, there exists no society. That’s
why socialization is very essential process for a
society to exist.
4. TYPES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION:
There are five types of social interaction takes
place in a society throughout the world.
Competition
Conflict
Cooperation
Accomodation
Exchange
8. ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION (VALUES):
Values are the principles, standards or qualities that
people care about and that contribute to driving
people’s behaviors.
Values held by individuals are also supported by a
set of unwritten rules or norms about what is
socially acceptable behavior- both personally and
within the society.
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10. SOCIAL CONTACTS:
Social contact refers to:
In the sociological hierarchy leading up to social
relations, an incidental social interaction between
individuals.
In social network, a node(representing an individual
or an organization) to which another node is
socially connected.
11. COMMUNICATIONS:
Communication is the act of conveying meanings
from one entity or group to other through use of
mutually understood signs, symbols and semiotic
rules.
Every communication involves(at least) one sender,
a message and a recipient.
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14. SOCIAL ATTITUDE:
Social attitude is defined as;
“A behavior pattern, anticipatory set or tendency,
predisposition to specific adjustment or more simply
a conditioned response to social stimuli.”
Attitude is a little thing that can make big
differences.
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16. SOCIAL VALUES:
Social values are defined as:
“Standards, which individuals and social groups
employ to define personal goals and essentially
shape the nature and form of social order in a
collective i.e what is acceptable or not, what is
desirable or not.”