Business Management

Month: May 2023

  • THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY

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    Community is a commonly used word, but it connotes several meanings. Some people use it almost as a synonym of Society; others use it for a geographically distinct local community or for a group of people who are of the same origin. In the West, it has also been used for ‘total institutions’ such as…

  • TYPOLOGY OF GROUPS

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    Groups can be classified in terms of size—large or small, the degree of their organization—informal, semi-formal, or formal; the quality of social interaction—intimate or impersonal; the range of group interests—specific or diffused. From the point of view of an individual, a group may be the one to which s/he belongs or does not belong—in-group and…

  • GROUP SIZE AND TYPE OF INTERACTIONS

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    The size of a group influences the web of relationships within it. The larger the group, the greater the sets of interpersonal interactions, and the more complicated the nature of its organization. A two-person group has the smallest number of interacting lines. As the size increases, so does the number of relationship structures. Sociometric charts…

  • GROUP SIZE AND TYPE OF INTERACTIONS

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    haroon
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    The size of a group influences the web of relationships within it. The larger the group, the greater the sets of interpersonal interactions, and the more complicated the nature of its organization. A two-person group has the smallest number of interacting lines. As the size increases, so does the number of relationship structures. Sociometric charts…

  • WHAT IS A GROUP?

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    There is no dispute in calling society a ‘Group’. However, we must make it clear that while every society is a group, not every group is a society. A society is a special type of group; it shares the characteristics of a group, but possesses additional characteristics that are found only within it. A football…

  • Introduction

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    Society is a complicated web of social relationships that are both formal and informal. These relationships exist between (i) two or more individuals, (ii) between individuals and groups, and (iii) between different groups. The entire community, or even society as a whole, is a group; in fact, these entities can be seen as a ‘group…

  • THE PHENOMENON OF SANDWICH CULTURE

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    The concept of culture that we have discussed was evolved by scholars studying uni-cultural societies—small tribal societies that were regarded as non-changing, Western societies sharing a common civilization, and large indigenous societies of the East having a civilizational spread. Such large societies became some sort of melting pot in which regional and religious cultures merged…

  • COMPONENTS OF CULTURE

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    A culture consists of elements or traits, complexes, norms and institutions. The smallest unit of culture is a Trait or an Element. It is a pattern of behaviour or a material product of such behaviour that is easily identifiable. Each item of the material culture, be it in the kitchen or the drawing room or the marketplace, is an…

  • ATTRIBUTES OF CULTURE

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    Let us now enumerate the key characteristics of culture. This consequence alerts us to the fact that cultures change as a result of interactions, both between members of a society and with non-members—with visitors, or when natives visit other societies. Integration also suggests that different aspects of culture are so intertwined that any change brought…

  • DEFINITION OF CULTURE

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    The concept of culture is one of the significant contributions of the discipline of anthropology to the understanding of society in an interdisciplinary perspective, meticulously developed by Talcott Parsons and his co-authors. Since sociology is the study of the social sphere, the concept of culture is central to its concerns. Studying far-off, pre-literate societies, anthropologists…