Understanding Society: Key Concepts and Social Dynamics
Key Concepts in Sociology
- The Individual: Refers to a specific subject. The term “individual” need not refer only to a human but to any complete being that belongs to a species, whether animal or vegetable.
- Society: In a broad sense, all individuals who interact with each other, sharing a variety of purposes, behaviors, or cultural features.
- Social Intelligence: We call “intelligence sharing” or “social intelligence” that which emerges as a phenomenon of the interaction between people.
- Social Status: The position each individual occupies in the social structure, as the company evaluates it. Each status corresponds to a status that is associated with prestige assessment, consideration, remuneration, living standards, and social power.
- Roles: A set of norms and standards of conduct of an individual for each status, class, or social position by virtue of the place or position occupied.
- Social Group: A group of people who interact with one another because they share the same rules, values, and purposes. They share a common identity.
- Society: A large number of individuals who work together to satisfy their social needs and share a common culture.
- The State: A form of political organization that establishes the political system of a society.
Social Dynamics and Education
11. A Shared Construction
Title: Building a Shared Understanding
Abstract: Social intelligence and language develop slowly, thanks to the whole group.
Theory: The learning of freedom.
12. The Value of Education
Title: Education for a Cosmopolitan Future
Abstract: We must provide an education for the future to achieve cosmopolitan citizenship.
Theory: The institutionalization of education.
Understanding Social Phenomena
1. Social Sciences: Understanding Social Facts
Title: Empirical Social Science
Abstract: Social sciences study social facts and formal theories.
Theory: Sociology.
2. The Two Human Births
Title: Social Being Makes Us People
Summary: Our humanity needs another birth, not just biological but social, to become people.
Theory: Sociology.
3. The Social Constitution of Humanity
Title: Becoming a Person Through Society
Summary: We do not develop as individuals in isolation but through the group.
Theory: Individual-society relations.
4. Situation and Status
Title: What is Social Status?
Abstract: Social status is not based on the economy but on social constructs such as honor.
Theory: The systems of social interaction: status and roles.
5. The Social Character of Our Individuality
Title: The Social Individual
Summary: The individual needs society to develop as a person.
Theory: Forms of social grouping.
6. The State from a Sociological Point of View
Title: State and Violence
Abstract: From a sociological perspective, the state’s specific medium is violence.
Theory: Forms of social grouping.
8. The Value of Individualism
Title: Individual Securities
Summary: The value of the individual, not individualism, is based on respect for human life.
Theory: Social characteristics of the organization currently.
9. Definition of Socialization
Title: Socialization
Summary: Defining socialization.
Theory: What is socialization?
10. The Debt to Society
Title: Paying Our Debt to Society
Abstract: Humans, before anything else, must pay the debt owed to society.
Theory: Social theory and achievements.