Understanding Social Interaction

1. Understandind
Social Interaction
By:
Tanzeela RahmanAwan

2. Who are we without
society?”
•NOT MUCH….WITHOUT SOCIETY, WE
ARE SUBHUMAN

3. Medium of Socialization

4. Definitions:
• Social interaction is the foundation of society.
Without interaction there would be no group
life.
• For instance, interaction is the major processes
for the socialization of an individual from birth to
death, which exists in every culture.

5. Socialization
The act of adapting behavior to the
norms of a culture or society is calleds
ocialization.
Socialization can also mean going
out and meeting people or hanging
out with friends. The
word socialization can mean "the
process of making social.“

6. Man is a social animal…Aristotle
the activity of mixing socially with others.
"socialization with students has helped her
communication skills"
the process of learning to behave in a way that
is acceptable to society.
"pre-school starts the process of socialization"

7. Need to be socialized
•We define and build
ourselves through our
perceptions of others’
assessments of us, he says.

8. 1799
Victor of Aveyron (also The Wild Boy
of Aveyron) was a feral child(children
raised by wild animals ) who apparently
lived his entire childhood naked and
alone in the woods.
He was caught but escaped

9. The case of Victor of Avelon
demonstrates that without those
assessments it is difficult to
build a self or become
appropriately socialized.

10. The story of Victor shows the
importance of socialization in
human society.

11. Social interaction
Social interaction is the foundation of
society. Without interaction there would
be no group life.
For instance, interaction is the major
processes for the socialization of an
individual from birth to death, which
exists in every culture.

12. Definition of Social Interaction
•Merrill:
“social interaction is the process of
contact where the behavior modifies
slightly” “Modifies slightly

13. Definition of Social Interaction
•Dowson & Getty:
“Social interaction is a process
whereby men inter- penetrate the
mind of each other”. D

14. Form of social interaction
Between individual and individual
 Between individual and groups
Between groups and groups
Between individual and culture

15. Between individual and
individual
•Doctor and patient
•Customer and shopkeeper

16. Between individual and group
•Teacher and students
•Singer and Audience

17. • Between groups and groups
•Pak v/s India Cricket team
•Political parties
•Indonesia and New eland team
•Etc..

18. • Between individual and culture
•You in a new country.
•Adopting their values and customs
•Chrismax, trick or treat, Black day,
White Day (Japan)
•New Eve…etc

19. The Structure of Social Interaction
Social Interaction is two or more
people taking one another into
account in building up their actions
Is structured around statuses, roles,
and norms
••Social Status
••Social Roles

20. The Structure of Social
Interaction
•Status: Refers to a recognized social
position an individual can occupy
(each person occupies many
statuses)

21. Status Types:
There are two types of status:
Achieved status: Is a voluntary status
Ascribed status: Is an involuntary status
All of our statuses together make up
what is called our status set.
• Status cues or status symbols are
indicators of a person’s social status.

22. •Status set: Entire ensemble of
statuses occupied by an individual.
•Student, sister, daughter…..
Master status: A person’s overriding
public identity, and the status that is
most influential in shaping that
person’s life at a given time.
Teacher at her home is also called
teacher

23. Social Roles
Social role is the set of expectations based on a specific
status. Role performance refers to how a person
actually plays a role. When this is far from the role
expectation, we call it deviance.
Multiple roles and responsibilities.

24. Role Conflict
Role conflict occurs when there are
competing demands between two or
more roles.
Role strain occurs when the
demands and expectations of one
role are impossible for us to satisfy.

25. •Patterns of
Social
Interaction

26. Patterns of Communication
Verbal communication
Non-verbal communication

27. • Verbal Communication •The social and
cultural context in which language is used
is important in interaction.
e.g; How Are You????

28. •Gestures •Facial Expressions
•Body Language
Emotions
Non-Verbal Communication

29. Social Interaction in the
Digital World
•Today, much communication occurs
through technological devices and
social media in which #hashtags and
text slang are common.
•E.g..Lol, IDK,OMG, LAMO,BFF..

30. Types of Social Interaction
 Cooperation :
A cooperative interaction occurs when
people act together to promote common
interests or achieve shared goals.
 No society can develop without
cooperation. In Pakistani society we find
a few examples of cooperation. e.g.

31. In the farms the rural cooperate with their
neighbors in watering the crops, harvesting
the crops.
In urban areas the people cooperate with
each other in different ways. Such
cooperation is found between the customer
and shop keepers, teachers and students, the
owner and the laborers, the doctor and the
patient

32. Conflict :
Conflicts arise when people or
groups have incompatible values or
when the rewards or resources
available to a society or its members
are limited.
• Objects of conflict
The objects of conflict may be:
a)Power b)Status c) property

33. Fields of conflict
• Conflict may be in the fields of
1)Political
2) Social
3) Economic
4) Religious fields.

34. Competition:
Competition is a form of
conflict in which individuals or
groups confine their conflict within
agreed-upon rules.

35. Differencebetweencompetition&conflict
Competition
 Competition is the
continuous process and it
is never ending.
 It is impersonal
 It is unconscious and the
individuals and groups are
not aware of it.
 It encourages hard work.
It is based on
nonviolence.
Conflict
 It is not continuous
process.
 At some stage it must
come to an end.
 It is personal.
 it is conscious and the
individual and groups are
aware and know each
other.
 It discourages hard work
for law in conflict.
 Violent methods may be
used in conflict.

36. Accommodation
 The parents accommodate their
children even at the cost of sacrificing
their own desires.
 Smith
“ defines accommodation as “social
adjustment” e.g. adjustment of man to
both natural and manmade environment”

37. Assimilation
Ogburn & Nimkoff:
“ it means two dissimilar individuals or groups
which become similar by removing their
cultural differences”.

38. The first step towards assimilation is
called acculturation. In other words it is
cultural modification.
Permanent settlement of migrants
people e.g. people from India and
Afghanistan in Pakistan.