Society and Man

Society
• A group of people with common territory,
interaction, and culture. Social Groups consist
of two or more people who interact and
identify with one another.
• Territory: Most countries have formal
boundaries and territory that the world
recognizes as theirs. However, a society’s
boundaries don’t have to be geopolitical
borders, such as the one between the United
States and Canada. Instead, members of a
society, as well as nonmembers, must
recognize particular land as belonging to that
society.
• Interaction: Members of a society must come
in contact with one another. If a group of
people within a country has no regular contact
with another group, those groups cannot be
considered part of the same society.
Geographic distance and language barriers can
separate societies within a country.
• Culture: People of the same society share
aspects of their culture, such as language or
beliefs. Culture refers to the language, values,
beliefs, behavior, and material objects that
constitute a people’s way of life. It is a defining
element of society.
 Man
• Man as a body (corporeality)
• Man as a social being (inter-subjectivity)
• Man as a spiritual (transcendental)
• Man as a thinking being (rational)
 Scientific Revolution
• Science as an Idea
It includes, theories, and all available systematic
explanations and observations about the natural
and physical world
• Science as an intellectual activity
it encompasses a systematic and practical study
of the natural world. This process of study involves
systematic observation and experimentation.
• Science as a body of knowledge
It is a subject or discipline, a field of study, or a
body of knowledge that deals with the process of
learning about the natural and physical world. This
what we refer as school science.
• Science as a personal and social activity
This explains that science is both knowledge and
activities done by human beings to develop better
understanding of the world around them. It is a
means to improve life and to survive in life. It is
interwoven with people’s lives.
 Science
1. Combatting Irrationality
It came to be assigned the task of weaning
the populace from myth, superstition, and
resultant irrational belief and behavior. Science
became imbued with skeptical view of and
approach to traditional knowledge claims.
 Science
2. Preeminent source of cognitive authority.
The acme of science in the 20th Century in
the west.
Shift of compass from Bible Literalism,
Astrology, Authority, Culture and Tradition to
Science.
There is a relative firm social consensus
about the direction in which to turn in such
instances: to science
 Technology
• Technology as material products: results of scientific
inquiry; hardware produced by a scientist
• As the application of knowledge in solving scientific and
practical problem that will help humans to survive and
improve his life
• Technology as human cultural activities or endeavors
• Technology as social enterprise- technology is a complex
system of knowledge, skills, people, methods, tools,
materials and resources applied and allocated to the
development, operation and production of a new or
improved product, process or services
• Technology as modern technology based on the advances
of science since the end of WWII
 Technology
• Sustaining the private corporation
• Source of personal identity
“You are what you eat.”
-Ludwig Freurbach
• Social Integration and Stratification
• To counteract centrifugal tendencies
characteristic of large scale, highly mobile 21st
Century society
• Man has an innate desire in knowing and
understanding everything around him.