Sociology for nurses, 2nd Edition

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Social Process

Learning Objectives

• Introduction
• Forms of social process
• Cooperation
• Accommodation
• Assimilation
• Conflict
• Competition
• Isolation

1. INTRODUCTION

Society is a system of relationships between two or more individuals and also between different groups. The contents of social relations are actions between persons, who are acting towards one another and responding reciprocally. Social interactions are social processes whereby two or more persons are in a meaningful contact and exert reciprocal influence on each other. The term social relationship refers to the relationship that exists among people. We may witness such relationships between father and son, employer and employee, teacher and student, merchant and customer, leader ...