ü What Is the Social Process
A process is defined as "continuous change taking place in a defined manner through the activity of forces present from the beginning within the situation" by Maciverand Page. It is also known as the social interaction process. Social interactions can be divided into two sorts, and social processes are the byproducts of these interactions. Social process is associative and disassociative.
Social Process in sociology
Social associative processes involve
1. Cooperation
2. Accommodation
3. Assimilation
4. Acculturation
5. Amalgamation
The Dissociative Social Process
1. The competition
2. Conflict
Social interaction is the source of all social processes. Social processes including cooperation, competitiveness, and conflict are a constant in human life. The process changes concurrently with changes in interaction patterns. These procedures are referred to as social interaction patterns. Either associative or disassociative mechanisms underlie social interaction.
People tend to assist one another through associative patterns. They participate in a few different facets of social life. People become isolated from one another as a result of dissociative processes. They are different in at least one social characteristic. Here are a few key definitions.
1. Horton and Hunt, first the recurrent behaviors that are frequently seen in social life are referred to as the "social process."
2. By social processes, Moris Ginsberg refers to the various ways that people or groups interact, such as social difference and integration, conflict and collaboration, growth and decay.
3. According to F.E. Merill, "It alludes to the repeated forms that social interaction takes. Additionally, he added that social processes "involve modes of social interaction that recur within the community."
