The Role of Social Organizations in Society
Concepts
Interdependence
Human beings live in society because they can best satisfy their needs and wants by working with other members of society. We are dependent on each other.
Social Organizations
Social organizations stem from and deal with the basic, universal problems of ordered, social life. Social organizations provide for the needs and wants of Canadians, provide them with meaning and purpose, and give them direction and discipline.
The Role of Social Organizations in Society
Human beings are social creatures who mostly prefer to live in groups.
Because individuals must interact with others within a society, there must be systems which allow for the procreation of life, making decisions, producing goods, creating meaning and purpose (religion, language and culture), and organizing people into an orderly society.
Many social organizations have been established within Canada that provide order & direction within our society and establish norms (what we consider to be normal) and values used to regulate human behaviour.
Some examples:
• social/cultural organizations, in their many different forms, provide for the needs of both adults and children;
• educational organizations aid in the socialization process and in the transmission of culture from generation to generation;
• political organizations meet the needs of making collective decisions;
• economic organizations meet the material needs of society; and all of these organizations have as one of their major objectives the organization of people into levels, strata, or classes.
Order
Social organizations play a significant role in providing order and direction within a society.
Social organizations establish norms or values which legitimize supports used to regulate human behaviour. The regulations of social organizations discipline human behaviour to conform to some definite, continuous, and organized patterns of behaviour.
Freedom
The freedom to live one's life according to the commands of one's conscience is a significant value in Canadian society.
Social organizations based on the cultural assumptions of one historical tradition may be quite different from the social organizations based on another cultural tradition.
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