Social Structure: Roles, Communication, and Norms
Society and Culture Always Lead
A human group should provide the framework for relations with the environment and sexual reproduction. Society and culture are always at the forefront.
Relationship with the Environment
The appropriate relationship with the environment is more than being in a physical medium. That relationship is related to being united with the environment, both rural and urban, in both a near and more distant environment.
This relationship involves the development of appropriate attitudes, first with the other individuals of the human group and also to the physical environment that gives them space to live.
From these relationships arise other more or less complex relationships that constitute the urban, rural, or general society.
In a society like ours, increasingly open, pluralistic, and multiracial, understanding “the others”, the roles of their cultures, and relationships that arise are increasingly problematic.
Sexual Habits and Societal Structure
Every society, from the simplest to the most complex, has its sexual habits, including relations between men and women before, during, and after marriage. Marriage is one of the cultural universals.
These habits, based on sex, also concern the rights and duties of individuals.
The changes that are occurring today in the patterns of heterosexual relationships can call into question not only the individual’s happiness but also the structure of society because these changes are producing a new family system. Not only is the family theme being questioned, but also the urban structure (households grow more in height than width).
This plot of heterosexual sex is also affecting the education system in two directions: it has led to universal education and the development process by intelligence and not by sex.
Differentiation of Roles and Responsibilities
All these companies, in part, depend on the stability and continuity of these continued and persistent activities that are made from different groups that make up those societies (e.g., in all societies, there is the distribution of work).
This distribution is usually based on ability, skill, and the motivations and needs of individuals.
The differentiation of roles and sectors of society will always be less in a primitive society than in a more evolved one.
The division of roles in corporate estates was based on birth and the status of the individual as a social organization (nobility, clergy, military, bourgeoisie, common people).
In our society, the allocation of roles is beginning to be a function of capacity building, skills, and abilities of individuals, but we must remember that there are still several types of despotisms. The distribution of these roles should be in a socially acceptable system of selection.
In our technologically developed society, we have such a complex system of different roles that it creates a variety of problems that affect both education and elitism. Education has been a value and, as a value, is starting to have different connotations.
In a society like ours that is changing so rapidly, problems arise from changing roles within society. A system of different roles is meaningless if there is no system for selecting people for such roles. Hence, a principle of selection in a society like ours, where there are more demands, both economic and social, seems to be inevitable.
This differentiation of roles depends primarily on the type of security and social order of the priorities that each society imposes.
Communication: The Foundation of Social Life
Language is one of the essential elements of the social life of the community, along with communication.
Communication or language provides society with the means to socialize its new members and serves as a mechanism for assigning roles.
In our society, the usual means of communication are spoken, written, and visual languages, and signs.
Each of these languages is becoming more diversified as is the level of human groups that use them.
Shared Guidelines and Knowledge in Society
Any society must provide and encourage the development of a set of conceptual guidelines that give meaning to various social situations and promote individual motivation and social groups.
All individuals need rules of behavior, and even these rules are necessary to depart from them and criticize them. These rules of behavior are called “shared guidelines.” Any society must get, impress, these social orientations and social norms to the members present and future through media and institutions (schools, media) at its disposal.
Through school and media, society spreads the beliefs, ideas, values, norms, (popular uses, customs, habits, and laws).
A structured, organized society with all the concepts set provides stability and security to its citizens, but with stability and security, there are also two dimensions at once inevitable that occur in all social processes: change and development.
Shared and Articulated Objectives in Society
Society must establish a set of shared and articulated objectives. Even in a society, there are multiple objectives; these must be significant for most of its members.
To discuss this point, let’s see the definition of society by Sprout: “A society is a set of individuals who interact so regulated (with rules) and more frequently among themselves than with members of other communities, who share the belief of belonging to that company, who share the same structure and the various activities carried out for the benefit of some members of the community, who share the same belief about the rules of correct behavior and therefore are related in the light of these beliefs.”
Regulation of Imperative Media in Society
Society must regulate its mandatory means. Where a company already has established guidelines and targets, it must seek ways to achieve them. In this quest is when the problem arises: the allocation and differentiation of roles, and regulation of society by those responsible for it.
These media are the way that society is constituted, governed, politically organized, administratively, and ethically and socially sanctioned.
The rejection of the media in a society by certain social groups may involve social conflicts, civil wars, rebellions, or anarchy.
While any company must be regulated or positively regulate the means to achieve their goals, it is also a fact that since the first written code, there is the need to develop precepts and negative controls.
These provisions should be positive but are negative, due to which many individuals can only understand the limits of acceptable behavior by enumeration of prohibitions and penalties; everything not prohibited is allowed.
Durkheim, in the “Rules of Sociological Method,” says that in every society, a certain amount of social crime is normal, provided it does not exceed a certain level.
Crime is necessary according to Durkheim; it is linked to the basic convictions of our social life, the latter being for something useful because such conditions which are essential part for the evolution of morality and law.
The company thus provides its own sanctions for effective control of deviant behavior and criminal.
Regulation of Affective Expression in Society
Society must regulate emotional expression. If a society fails to regulate the expressions of love, hate, pleasure, aggression, and similar emotional states, it could create a situation of anarchy or of permissiveness in which no individual would be responsible for the outcome of their impulses, whatever they were. The uncontrolled expression of these impulses can lead, firstly, to the breakdown of interpersonal relationships; secondly, there may be breaks at the level of intergroup relations; and thirdly, it may stem the struggle of all against all. The more a society is controlled, when there is a break interpersonal, the easier it will be a break intergroup.
Socialization of Members in Society
Society must socialize its members. Society must include, lead, and teach the new members of their belief system, ideas, values, and norms, and regulation of behavior. This is what is known as socialization; only through this process can the existence of a society continue. If the socialization process fails or is modified, the company may go extinct or become something different.