The human person in society

• Society

  • organized group of people whose member interact frequently & have common territory and culture
• They imagined humans as living in a so called “natural state”, removed from civilization
• Social contract theory

  1.Thomas Hobbes

  • mankind is governed by desire which leads to conflict among individuals
  • Social contract - agreement where individuals sacrifices an amount of their freedom to the authority
• 3. Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • “general will”
  • Even the people are the one who organized society, the government is able to impose its will on the people
  • people empowered the government to act on their behalf to judge of what is beneficial to society
• 2. John Locke

  • society is organized based on the “consent of the governed“
  • person are more cooperate and reasonable
  • Consent of the governed - society is formed through an consent of the individual
• 4. John Rawls

  • humans naturally seek a just and fair society because of self-interest
  • ”original position” - humans as having a “veil of ignorance“ or no knowledge
  • self-interest - people choose to cooperate since it’s beneficial
• Society is founded of the common good

  Common good - social condition which enable person to fulfill their goals and achieve perfection
• FORM OF SOCIETIES

  1.Hunting and Gathering Society

  • earliest and simplest form
  • generally small, in size and family
  • nomadic - spend their time searching for food - no permanent territory
• 2. Pastoral society

  • domestification of animals as food
  • larger population and remain in longer place
  • produces surplus food
  • handicrafts
• 3. Horticultural society

  • small-scale cultivation of plant
  • semi-nomadic - they travel to another place if they have already depicted the resources in one area
  • roles and responsibilities are defined according to gender
• 4. Agrarian or Agricultural society

  • large-scale and long-term cultivation of crops
  • improve technology and use tools in farming
• 5. Feudal society

  • ownership of land
  • Those who own land are most powerful
  • The lord depends on the vassals for resources. The vassals depend on peasant for service. Peasant depend for protection.
• 6. Industrial society

  • uses of machinery
  • advance in science & tech, innovation in communication & transport
  • greater inequalities in wealth, power defined by nature of work
• 7. Post-industrial society

  • based on knowledge, info and sale of services
  • rises to visual society
  • virtual society - engage in complex relationships - used of internet
  • information influences of people
• How does society influence our development as person?

  As we grow, we begin to adopt the traits, traditions.

  We learn through our interaction with family and members of society.

  Socialization
• Norms - set of traits and behavior that society consider acceptable and are passed on to others
• Laws - more formal that establish and define acceptable behavior of citizen.
• Folkways - fewer norms that arise from tradition
• social system - organized set of relationship among individual that composes society
• social rule - action & behavior expected of a certain individual
• Social groups or social classes - individual who share similar background and perform similar roles in society
• social institutions - groups that perform vital functions in society
• social values - action or ideals that are considered important by society