The compositions of the social
structures are made of different rations between groups, roles, status, interaction,
economy, and organization. These individual components coexist to allow society
to work smoothly even though there can be a clash between roles, status, and organization.
In different companies the matter of work can have difficulties based on their inner
rules that can differ from the outside world; they have to teach it to every
new comer. There is a theory called the six degrees of separation that refer to
how many people are between one individual and any other individual. The power
and weakness of society is its complexity.
Status is a defined position that can
be, ascribed, given or achieved. The master status is a way to be identified based on work or marital
status. The roles are attached to
each status have a role expectation
and the role performance that is the
real work done. Different status with different roles sets can create conflict because both role sets can’t be managed
at the same time, like to be a good friend and still be a good mentor of a
parent. Different status and roles working together for the benefit of multiple
individuals is called a social institution. They have different magnified
relations with the interactions with individuals like competition, conflicts, cooperation , accommodations in which
nether side wins, and exchange of
favors, work or goods this is made possible by reciprocity that states that if some dose something for one that
one now owes the other individual a favor. The theory of exchange is that
individuals are motivated to obtain something from the individuals they
interact with.
The types
of societies are made by their economical system. Preindustrial can consist on hunting
and gathering food, pastoral and horticultural societies concentrate on
the goal of having animals or growing plants without the help of animals in any
of the two cases the first sign of work division starts, and agricultural societies that consist on
using of animals to grow food products and barter to exchange the food
products. Industrial societies consist
of manufactured goods and urbanization of
areas that consist on a cluster of people in a city. Post industrial the economy is based on information. Durkheim said
that when people work together as a whole to finish a task is mechanical solidarity
in preindustrial societies. Organic solidarity is instead the impersonal
relation created by the increase of job specialization. Gemeinshaft is a German
word for mechanic solidarity and gesellschft is for organic solidarity. Groups compose
societies in a way they have to be classified by size, time needed to gather, and
organization, how close do they get with the individuals as in a primal or secondary
group. The type that can be reference, in and out gropes, e-communities, social
networks. The function of the group require a leader, instrumentally and expressive,
so logical and expressive.
Formal organization
is now represented by bureaucracy, according
to Weber’s model there has to be a division
of labor, ranking authorities, employment based on formal qualifications, rules
and regulations, and specific lines of promotion and advancement. A non-profit
profit organization falls to the category of a voluntary work. Weber’s model falls apart by the iron law of
oligarchy in which people promote others for their own interests. In Japan to
show how the working groups function the older workers show the new comers how
to act and dress according to the company standards. In a bank they even have a
code that says that if they are not formal they are disrespecting the customer.
By using this method many workers can follow a certain standard.
The way
society works depends on the individuals. As they use their status for the
benefit others and not succumbing to the iron law of oligarchy gropes will work
smoothly in their designated economy. Even with the different types of groups
they can all work together and exchange knowledge for the benefit of both
sides. With more organic solidarity in a work space the team is doomed to fall
but when everyone work together for the common goal a society can fully improve
and transcend.
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