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Book No. – 24 (Sociology)
Book Name – The Social System
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1. THE STRUCTURE OF THE RELATIONAL CONTEXT OF EVALUATIVE ACTION-ORIENTATIONS
2. THE MODALITIES OF OBJECTS AS FOCI OF ROLE-EXPECTATIONS
3. THE SOLIDARITY OF THE COLLECTIVITY
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The Structure of the Social Systems: The Organisation of the Components into Sub-Systems
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- The first two chapters prepare the foundation for the present one.
- The first chapter outlined the general frame of reference of action, including the components and types of systems in which they are organized.
- The second chapter expanded on the action features most relevant to the social system, analyzing the functional problems, prerequisites of social systems, and types of action-orientation in roles and institutions.
- Now, the focus is on how these components are organized to form a social system.
- The next step is analyzing the relational context of types of action-orientation relative to which actions must be institutionalized.
- So far, action-orientation types have been discussed in the context of individual roles, not in differentiated reciprocal interaction systems.
- The relational context involves understanding the combinations of these orientations in interaction systems.
- After analyzing relational context, the next step is to focus on the points of reference differentiating objects. This includes differentiating their ascriptive quality-complexes and achievement pattern-types.
- The following chapter will place these results into the functional problem-foci of the social system, classifying them as allocative and integrative problems.
- These problems will be further differentiated to understand their impact on the system.
- The analysis will then move to the constitution of a systematically differentiated role-structure adequate to a society’s functional requirements.
- The starting point for this is the combination of values from the pattern variables put forward in the last main section of the previous chapter.
- The primary pattern elements of role structure will be unevenly distributed across different parts of the social system.
- These primary patterns will be related to adaptive structures, which bridge the gap between abstract formalism and the specific adjustment problems in particular situations within the social system.
- The analysis will explore both the internal differentiation within a given social system and the range of variation between different social systems.