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Social interactions involve acts between two or more people that take into account each other's experiences and intentions. There are several patterns of social interaction, including exchange (trading benefits), cooperation (working together for individual or group goals), and competition (competing for limited resources). Competition exists in most social activities due to scarcity and drives social change as people adopt new behaviors. Conflict seeks to win at any cost and can be harmful if it divides people, but it also signals the need for change and social integration. Derived social processes like accommodation, reciprocity, acculturation, assimilation, and amalgamation arise from basic social interactions.

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Social Process Interaction Group 4

Social interactions involve acts between two or more people that take into account each other's experiences and intentions. There are several patterns of social interaction, including exchange (trading benefits), cooperation (working together for individual or group goals), and competition (competing for limited resources). Competition exists in most social activities due to scarcity and drives social change as people adopt new behaviors. Conflict seeks to win at any cost and can be harmful if it divides people, but it also signals the need for change and social integration. Derived social processes like accommodation, reciprocity, acculturation, assimilation, and amalgamation arise from basic social interactions.

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Social Process Interaction

Group 4

Social Interactions- acts, actions, or practices of two or more people mutually


oriented towards each other’s selves,that is, any behavior that tries to affect or take
account of each other’s subjective experiences or intentions.

Patterns of Interactions

Exchange
 A voluntary process by which persons or groups of people trade tangible and
intangible benefits with the expectation that all parties will benefit.
 This only persists only if each party to interaction is getting something out of it.

Cooperation
 Involves individuals or groups working together for achievement of their
individual or collective goals.

1. Direct Cooperation- Activities in which people do like things together; play


together, worship together,labor together in many ways. People do in company,
the things which they can also do seperately or in isolation.
2. Indirect Cooperation- Activities with dissimilar task towards single end.
3. Primary Cooperation- It is found in primary groups such as family, neighborhood,
friends, and so on. The rewards for everyone are meant to be shared with every
member of the group.
4. Secondary Cooperation- It is highly formalized and specialized. Each performs
his or her task, and thus helps each others to perform their tasks, so that both
can separately enjoy the fruits of their cooperation.
5. Tertiary Cooperation- It can be fourn between two or more political parties,
castes, tribes, religious groups, etc. It is often called accomodation. The two
groups may cooperate and work together for antagonistic goals

Competition
 Grows out of the fact that human needs and desires appear to be insatiable and
the goods, prestige, and prerequisites which are rewards for successful
competition always are in short supply.

Nature and characteristic of Competition


1. Scarcity as a condition of Competition - People compete for the possession of the
limited resources.
2. Competition as continuous-It is found virtually in every area of social activity and
social interaction particularly. Ex. Wealth, status and fame.
3. Competition is a cause of social change- It causes persons to adopt new forms of
behavior in order to attain desire ends.
4. Competition may be personal or impersonal- Impersonal competition sometimes
takes place without the actual knowledge of each other’s existence. Competition
may also be personal as two individuals individuals contest for election to an office.
5. Competition is always governed by norms- Competition is not limitless not it is
unregulated.

Conflict- One seeks to win at any cost even it may cause injury or harm.

Harmful effects of Conflict- a. It tends to cumulate rapidly, b. It is extremely costly, c.


Inherently divisive. ( It sets persons against person or groups)

Useful Functions of Conflict- a. Promotes loyalty within the group b. it signals the
needs for and helps promote short-run social change, c. it appears intimately
involved in moving societies towards new levels of social integration.

Derived Social Process- seconday patterns that arise out of the basic social
interaction.
1. Accommodation- refers to several sorts of working agreements between rival
groups that permit at least limited cooperation between them eventhough issues
divicing them remain unsettled.
2. Reciprocity-refers to responding to a positive action with another positive action,
and responding to a negative action to another negative action.
3. Acculturation- is not the absorption of different cultures as a result of a mere
superficial exposure.
4. Assimilation- A term synonymous with acculturation, used to describe the process
by which an outsider, immigrant or subordinate group becomes indistinguishably
integrated into the dominant host society.
5. Amalgamation- A process by which two or more previous racial, ethnical, or
nationality identified groups intermarry and produce offspring that are new racial
stock.

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