1. SOCIAL ORGANISATION

2. Meaning and definition:
• Arrangement of persons parts
• Family, church, college, factory
• Members inter related
• Members given specific tasks according to
status, role
• To achieve goals
• Coordination of relationship among members.

3. • ELIOTT and MERRIL:
A state of being
Various institutions functioning with purpose
• LUMELY:
Social organisation is a whole
Composed of specialised parts
• EARNEST JONES:
Social organisation is the system
Parts related to each other and to whole society
In a meaningful way

4. CHARACTERISTICS:
1. A GOAL:
 Members inter-related for common goal
 Planned and coordinated by organisation
 They have unity of interest
 Absence of unity-it comes to an end
2. Acceptance of role and status:
 Every member assigned role, position, status
 Role-behaviour expected of him
 According to value of role- enjoys status
 Members to be prepared to accept role

5. 3. NORMS and ROLES:
 Organisation has norms to control
 Norms-socially approved ways of behaviour
 Norms define role
 Organisation functions smoothly if members
confirm to norms
 What a member ought to do ought not to do
laid down by norms

6. 4. SANCTION:
 Norms supported by sanctions
 Rewards and punishments
 For non-conformity-warning to physical
punishment
 Sometimes encourage desirable behaviour
discourage anti-social behaviour
 Each organisation has sanction system to control
members