The Role of Social Organizations in Society

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The Role of Social Organizations in Society

• Human beings are social creatures who mostly
  prefer to live in groups
• Because individuals must interact with others
  within a society, there must be systems which
  allow for the procreation of life, making
  decisions, producing goods, creating meaning and
  purpose, and organizing people into a orderly
  society.

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• Many social organizations have been established
  to deal with universal problems of ordered social
  life
• Kinship
• Families in their many different forms provide
  for the needs of both adults and children
• Educational Organizations
• They aid in the socialization process and in
  teaching norms of behaviour
• Political Organizations
• Meet the needs of making collective decisions
• Economic Organizations
• Meet the material needs of society
• Culture
• The culture needs to be transmitted from
  generation to generation
• Stratification
• All of these organizations have as one of their
  objectives the organization of people.
• Activity 1 Relationships Between Life Stages And
  Institutions