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Book No. – 24 (Sociology)
Book Name – The Social System
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1. THE FOCI OF CRYSTALLIZATION FOR SOCIAL STRUCTURE
2. THE INTERNAL DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS
2.1. Categorization of actor-units in object-roles
2.2. Classification of orientation-role types
2.3. The “Economy” of Instrumental Orientations
2.4. The “Economy” of Expressive Orientations
2.5. The Cultural Orientation System
2.6. Integrative Structures
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Chapter – 4
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- The chapter advances the understanding of an operating social system.
- It moves from elementary components, as discussed in Chapter II, to how these components are organized into relational complexes and collectivities.
- The organization of these complexes can vary around the fundamental foci of crystallization in the social system.
- The current chapter aims to show how these sub-systems are integrated to form more complex social systems.
- The goal is to bring the analysis closer to the level of empirical sociologists.
- The primary norm for the discussion is the society, which is self-subsistent in principle, as defined earlier.
- The concept of self-subsistence is important because it helps analyze the differentiation of the total system.
- The analysis results will be applicable to any partial social system once its location within the larger society is understood and its boundaries are defined.
- The analysis will focus on functional foci for the structural differentiation of the social system.
- These foci are considered derivatives of the action-orientations analysis discussed previously.
- Many connections will be drawn between the current and previous analyses.