Understanding Social Structure and Processes in Sociology

📚 Sociology discusses society from various aspects, including social structure and social processes.

🔍 Auguste Comte identified two forms of social life: social statics and social dynamics.

🏛️ Social structure includes social groups, social institutions, and social stratification.

Social groups are a collection of individuals who interact and come together to fulfill their needs and pursue their interests.

The process of interaction within a social group involves adaptation and adjustment due to the diversity and differences among its members.

Social groups can be formal or informal, with formal groups being based on official and secondary ties, and informal groups being based on friendship and primary ties.

👥 Social groups are formed through friendship and develop into more intense and deep relationships.

🏛️ Social institutions are sets of rules that regulate social interactions and create social order.

📊 Social stratification refers to the layered structure of society, where different classes have distinct communication patterns, cultures, and economic abilities.

📚 Social stratification is determined by factors such as wealth, trust, and power.

📊 There are different forms of social stratification, including economic and academic stratification.

🏞️ Social mobility refers to the ability of individuals or groups to move up or down in the social hierarchy.

Social mobility can be categorized into social climbing, social horizontal, and social sinking.

Culture is a complex concept that encompasses ideas, activities, and material forms.

Social processes involve dynamics, changes, and interactions within a society.

📚 Social processes involve actions that meet needs and interests through social contact and communication.

🔄 Social change can be positive or negative, depending on whether it brings progress or harm.

🌍 Social processes occur at different levels, including individual, group, community, and global levels.

🤝 Associative process in social interaction involves mutual symbiotic synergy.

⚖️ Disassociative process in social interaction involves conflicts, distortions, and manipulations.

🔎 Understanding and analyzing social phenomena using concepts and theories from Auguste Comte.