Wuelsther May T.

Aurelia
BSEd 4-4 Physical
Sciences
MTh 2:30-4:00
Social Dimensions of
Education
 Composition
When you talk about the composition of
something, you are referring to the way in which
its various parts are put together and arranged.
Television has transformed the size and
composition of audiences. [+ of]
Forests vary greatly in composition from one part
of the country to another.
 Nature
Nature is all the animals, plants, and other things
in the world that are not made by people, and all
the events and processes that are not caused by
people.
The most amazing thing about nature is its infinite
variety.
...grasses that grow wild in nature.
...the ecological balance of nature.
 Society
A society is a grouping of individuals, which
is characterized by common interest and
may have distinctive culture and
institutions. A "society" may refer to a
particular ethnic group, such as the Nuer,
to a nation state, such as Switzerland, or
to a broader cultural group, such as
Western society.
 Society
An organized group of people
associated together for religious,
benevolent, cultural, scientific,
political, patriotic, or other
purposes may also be considered
a society.
 Society
• The term society emerged in the fifteenth
century and is derived from the French
société. The French word, in turn, had its
origin in the Latin societas, a "friendly
association with others," from socius
meaning "companion, associate, comrade
or business partner."
 Society
• Essential in the meaning of
society is that its members share
some mutual concern or interest,
a common objective or common
characteristics, often a common
culture.
 Society
• Society and culture are similar
concepts, but their scopes are
different. A society is an
interdependent community, while
culture is an attribute of a community:
the complex web of shifting patterns
that link individuals together.
 Society

• For example, Clifford Geertz

suggested that "society" is the
actual arrangement of social
relations while "culture"
consists of beliefs and
symbolic forms.
 Society
• Edward Burnett Tylor wrote in 1871
that "culture or civilization, taken in its
wide ethnographic sense, is that
complex whole which includes
knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
custom, and any other capabilities
and habits acquired by man as a
member of society."
 Society
• In the study of social sciences "society"
has been used to mean a group of people
that form a semi-closed social system, in
which most interactions are with other
individuals belonging to the group.
According to sociologist Richard Jenkins,
the term addresses a number of important
existential issues facing people:
 Society
• How humans think and exchange
information. The sensory world
makes up only a fraction of
human experience, so in order to
understand the world, we have to
conceive of human interaction in
the abstract, namely society.
 Society
• Many phenomena cannot be reduced to
individual behavior. In order to explain certain
conditions, a view of something "greater than the
sum of its parts" is needed.
• Collectives often endure beyond the lifespan of
individual members.
• The human condition has always meant going
beyond the evidence of our senses. In other
words, every aspect of our lives is tied to the
collective sense
 Society
• In political science, "society" is
often used to mean the totality
of human relationships,
generally in contrast to the
State, the apparatus of rule or
government within a territory.
 Composition and Nature of
SOCIETY
• Wuelsther May T.
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 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• One of the primary purposes of
society is the formation of an
organized group of individuals who
can support each other in various
ways. It is in the difficult times that
you realize the importance of being a
part of society.
 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• It is the members of your social
group who come forward to give
you the help needed. The support
given by society can be of the
physical, emotional, financial, or
medical form.
 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• A society is characterized by social
networks. They form an integral part of it.
Social networks are defined as the
patterns of relationships between people.
Relationships give rise to social
interactions between people of a society.
Individuals who belong to different ethnic
groups can come together, thanks to
societies.
 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• Their interactions give rise to
strong social bonds that result in
long-lasting relationships. A
society gives rise to a family
system and an organization of
relationships, which are at the
heart of any social group.
 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• The members of a society should be
concerned about each other. The basic
purpose of society is to be part of a
collective movement and move forward,
together. Being a part of society is about
taking everyone along; it is about taking
unanimous decisions for the achievement
of a common goal.
 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• Social inequality, racial discrimination,
economic disparity, poverty, and
overpopulation are some of the major
concerns of society today. As an
organized social group, it is our duty
to address these concerns and work
towards the betterment of society.
 PURPOSE OF SOCIETY
• One of the reasons why society is
important is that it gives you a
framework to work together. It
provides you with a platform to take
collective efforts towards improving
social conditions. Most importantly, a
society serves as a strong support
system in life.
 COMPOSITION OF SOCIETY

• Individuals.
• Empire.
• Utilitarian society and liberal
society.
 INDIVIDUALS
• In the first place we have the national-
communal persons, or nations: a nation is
only a birth group, according to the
etymological explanation. The national
person has, then, an instinctive-genetic
origin, but is already endowed with spirit,
with a self-conscience. It is, in fact, the first
person which, in the course of time and of
human evolution, became aware of being
one.
 INDIVIDUALS
• In the second place we have the
social-collective persons: they
appear and become aware of
themselves within the national
persons, and are formed by free
affinities and election among
individuals.
 INDIVIDUALS
• Finally, we have the individual-mortal
persons, which nowadays are the most
evident and even the most conscious of
their essence as persons. In spite of this,
they are the ones which have appeared
more recently in the history of mankind.
The individual conscience is an acquisition
which probably is related to the
development of the social-collective
structures known as civilizations.
 EMPIRE
• The total society or geopolitical community is also a
person itself. It is a social-collective person, historically
having its origin in the need for protection and defence in
a permanent warlike environment. The first geopolitical
communities are the first cities, the first polis: several
ethnic groups met there to live in them:

• geographically, in a given town space;

• politically, ruled by one only ruling body (later it became
the State), which acted as a manager of the whole
community;
• justicially, protected by one only peacemaking body
(later it became Justice), well differentiated and
separated from the ruling body.
 EMPIRE
• Empire has its origin, as we have said, in the
need for protection and defence. To this end,
several ethnic groups assemble freely in an
empire, in a geopolitical community. To this end,
the fundamental idea which explains the empire,
is that of free fedaration agreement, in its two
versions: federation in one only compact
nucleus to face the outer dangers (or uni-extra-
federation) and free domestic confederation, for
the free organization of every ethnic group and
of the relationship among themselves (or multi-
inter-confederation).
 UTILITARIAN SOCIETY AND
LIBERAL SOCIETY
• All the private persons -whether individual
or collective ones- which, with an
interested and egoistic actitude, acting
only on their own behalf, dedicate
themselves to the production or to the
consumption of utilitarian goods. These
persons are called productive and/or
consuming personal forces, or production
and/or consumption agents.
 UTILITARIAN SOCIETY AND
LIBERAL SOCIETY
• all the specific goods exchanged (whether
produced goods or producing goods;
• all the monetary interrelationships among
these persons concerning these goods:
that is, sales relations on the one hand
(suppliers) and purchase relations on the
other hand (customers), whether it is
produced goods or producing goods.
 UTILITARIAN SOCIETY AND
LIBERAL SOCIETY
• The utilitarian society is also
called a market: we have already
given its most accurate and
operative definition, as a
«collection of all the free
e l e m e n t a r y, m o n e t a r y, and
changes
 UTILITARIAN SOCIETY AND
LIBERAL SOCIETY
• All the private persons -whether
individual or collective- which, in
an altruistic and unselfish actitude,
without going after their own
interest, dedicate themselves to
the service of all the members of
society, without exception;
 UTILITARIAN SOCIETY AND
LIBERAL SOCIETY
• all the services given by these persons,
through the interpersonal relation and
communication;
• and all the remunerations that in justice,
the geopolitical society decides to deliver
to them so that they may live with dignity
and develop their vocation with all the
technical means within their reach.
 UTILITARIAN SOCIETY AND
LIBERAL SOCIETY
• The utilitarian and liberal vocations,
activities, professions, institutions...
differ radically among themselves as
far as their motivations and objectives
are concerned; but all of them are
equally noble, legitimate and
necessary to society.
 NATURE OF SOCIETY
• The subfields of Nature and Society
Geography at UC Davis that are
particularly strong include: agricultural
geography; cultural and political ecology;
environmental hazards; environmental
justice and conflict; and historical nature
and society geography.
 NATURE OF SOCIETY
• Agricultural geography
• Cultural and political ecology
• Environmental hazards
• Environmental justice and conflict
• Historical nature and society geography
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