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    Rural Society and Polity - Lecture I

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    This document discusses key concepts related to rural society and culture, including community, associations, institutions, and the relationship between individuals and society. It defines community as a group that shares basic living conditions and a sense of belonging in a particular locality. Associations are organized groups that pursue common interests, like schools, churches, and political parties. Institutions are established procedures that guide group activity, such as marriage, government, and customs. The document also examines folkways, mores, and norms/values as influences on social behavior, and how societies have evolved from relying on similarity to relying more on differences and specialized roles.

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    This document discusses key concepts related to rural society and culture, including community, associations, institutions, and the relationship between individuals and society. It defines community as a group that shares basic living conditions and a sense of belonging in a particular locality. Associations are organized groups that pursue common interests, like schools, churches, and political parties. Institutions are established procedures that guide group activity, such as marriage, government, and customs. The document also examines folkways, mores, and norms/values as influences on social behavior, and how societies have evolved from relying on similarity to relying more on differences and specialized roles.

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    This document discusses key concepts related to rural society and culture, including community, associations, institutions, and the relationship between individuals and society. It defines community as a group that shares basic living conditions and a sense of belonging in a particular locality. Associations are organized groups that pursue common interests, like schools, churches, and political parties. Institutions are established procedures that guide group activity, such as marriage, government, and customs. The document also examines folkways, mores, and norms/values as influences on social behavior, and how societies have evolved from relying on similarity to relying more on differences and specialized roles.

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    Rural Society and Polity

    Introductory Concepts on Society and


    Culture
    Society is a system of usages and
    procedures , of authority and mutual aid, of
    many groupings and divisions, of controls of
    human behaviour and of liberties
    Mutual awareness
    Society involves both likeness and
    difference
    Man is a social animal

    Community
    Wherever the members of any group ,
    small or large, live together in such a way
    that they share , not this or that particular
    interest , but the basic conditions of a
    common life, we call that group a
    community.
    Locality a territorial area
    Community Sentiments- Sense of
    belonging
    Great and Small Communities

    Associations
    Association is a group organised for the pursuit of an
    interest or group of interests in common.
    Associations and communities are different because of
    interest aspect of associations
    Sometime associations become communities such as
    monasteries, convents and prisons
    State is also a form of association
    Schools, colleges, University, Political Parties, Sects,
    Churches, army, police etc. are all associations
    Corresponding to its peculiar method the association has
    a corporate character.
    Institutions
    Institutions are established forms or conditions
    of procedure characteristic of group activity
    Institutions are recurrent, repetitive and
    purposive
    Every association with respect to its interest has
    its characteristic institutions
    We belong to community and association but
    not to institutions
    Marriage, representative government, legislative
    procedures, examination are examples of
    institutions
    Community also establish institutions- dating,
    group marriages, levirate, child marriage etc.
    Community Institutions develop gradually and
    attain a social form
    Folkways, Mores and Customs
    Folkways are recognised or accepted ways of behaving
    in society. They include conventions, forms of etiquette
    and myriad ways of behaviour human beings have
    evolved.
    Folkways when not merely used as norm but as
    regulators we are viewing them as more
    Wearing of clothes of a particular style is in conformity
    with folkways while wearing clothes at all is influenced
    by mores
    Customs are socially accredited ways of acting
    They are strongly embedded in our group life
    We make the error of considering our customs as the
    only correct way of doing things
    Institutions and customs are closely related
    Institutions have marks of public recognition
    Values and Norms
    The values identify those objects, conditions
    or characteristics that members of the
    society consider important; that is, valuable.
    Social norms can also be viewed as
    statements that regulate behavior and act as
    informal social controls. They are usually
    based in some degree of consensus and are
    enforced through social sanctions.
    Individual and Society
    Individual- a product of growth of society
    Society is not just a sum of individuals and
    is a phenomenon of different order
    Societies have evolved from mechanical
    solidarity (primitive) to organic solidarity
    (modern)
    Mechanical solidarity (MS) is solidarity of
    resemblance
    Organic solidarity (OS) is solidarity of
    difference based on structural
    differentiation and division of labour
    Transition marking this change is reflected
    by change from repressive to restitutive
    law


    Individual and Society
    Society is present in some form in all
    individuals
    Even religion has been interpreted as
    transfigured form of society
    Society is recreated in every social form
    through distinctive ways and methods
    Major reasons of suicides are interpreted as
    either
    Too much integration with society
    Too little integration with society and
    Normlessness in society

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