SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP

Imagine yourself as a KID,

How did your parents rear
YOU?
Where do you think their rules and regulations
came from?

Where do you think their values and moral are

anchored on?
“PEOPLE create their SOCIETY
SOCIETY create PEOPLE.”

Understanding the concept of society and the

factors that are part of it.
Society – humanly created organization or
system of interrelationship that attaches
individuals in a common culture.
 It includes the product of human
interaction and the experience of living with
others around us.
 These interactions create product that have
the ability or power to act back upon humans
to determine or constrain action.
CULTURE – important aspects that guide our
behavior.
 defined as sets of traditions, rules and or
symbols that shape and are enacted as feelings,
thoughts and behaviors of group of people.
 Primarily a learned behavior as distinct from what
are given by nature.
 It is used to designate everything that is
produced by human such as habits, beliefs arts
and artifacts.
 this human product can be material or non
material are passed thru generation to
generation, serving as a GUIDE in most of our
social interaction.
Culture is a symbol and one of the most
important symbols that we used is
LANGUAGE.
LANGUAGE – is a verbal symbols through which
humans communicate ideas, feelings and
experiences.
-it can be transmitted across generations.
- It is not ONLY a tool or means of expression,
BUT a way to structure and shape our
experiences of the world and what we see
around us.
A product of human interactions which emerge
from culture are Values.
VALUES – also known as preferences. These
ideas that people share about to know what is
right and wrong or what is desirable and
undesirable. It is known to be very general,
abstract and cut across variations in
situations.
Norms – an interesting part of society. These
are concepts and behaviors that tells us what
is normal.
 A behavioral rules or standards for social
interaction.
 Derived from values BUT also contradict
values.
 Serve as both guide and criticisms for
individual behavior.
 Imagine yourself alone in a room. Suddenly
you heard a loud thunder. How would you
react?
 Imagine yourself in a classroom.
◦ You are with your classmate
◦ Teacher is in front giving lesson while you are
listening

 a loud thunder is heard?

How will you react?
According to MEAD (1934),reactions are
normal because we are affected by the society
around us. This is true as Mead explained to
his theory about Social Self.
He claimed that SELF consist of 2 parts. The “I”
which is known as unsocialized self and the
“ME” that is known as the socialized self.
I - is who we really are.
 our opinion of ourselves as a whole.
 who is self centered and careless
 E.g when you are alone you tend to act as
naturally the way we wanted to, since nobody
is looking at you we do not care how exactly
we act.
ME – is the awareness of how others expect us
to behave.
 A part of our self that is careful and
conscious.

Based on Mead’s model the ACTUAL SELF can

be achieve when the “I and the me” meet.
 The actual self is achieved when we tend to
incorporate the expectations of the society to
our own system.
In a nutshell, we behave based on what is
expected among us. Our culture, play an
important role in honing us socially.
The norms of the society dictate how we
should act as an individual.
We tend to act accordingly based on our roles,
beliefs culture and the expectation of the
society from us.
 With these learning's we are able to
understand how we are developed socially.
From macro context(culture, values, norms)
to micro context ( the self), we understand
that we are a product of the society. However,
it is important to note that we are also vital in
changing or developing our society.