Social Organisation Status and role
If two or more persons establish among them cooperative relations and make concerted efforts, the state of these cooperative relations and concerted effort is called organization.
The organizations can perform simple or complex tasks. All individuals within an organization try to work for a common aim. The work organization is a derivative of the work organ. The work organ means a part or limb or of an animal or man. Thus brain, heart, liver, arms, legs etc., are the various organs of man.
The man or an animal as a whole is said to be a structure and organization, He is an organization because his various limbs, parts of organs are mutulally and cooperatively releated. A group of individual together working for a definite common aim is called an organization.
Social organization
According to Reuter and Hart, “By social organization is meant the totality of cultural institutions and their interrelationship together with the body of the unorganized activities characteristics of the group.” So, the social organization includes and comprehends the cultural institutions and their interrelationships in addition to the unorganized activities of the groups.
Society is a vast system. The organization of this system is the inter relationship of its constituents. The constituents of society are institutions, associations and group.
A society can be described as organized only when all these various organs work smoothly and without friction and adequately perform their function. So, social organisation, besides being a state, is a process as well. In its structure a society is not unlike an organism in which the different parts are so constructed as to coordinate and synchronise with each other in the performance of their respective functions.
In much the same way, in an organized society, the various parts function systematically. When the organization is disturbed, this adjustment is marred and lost. “Social organization is system by which the parts of society are related to each other and to the whole society in a meaningful way.”-Earnest Jones.
Hence, it is social organization that maintains an active synthesis between the mutual activities of the various units of society. Society has some implicated and explicit objectives for the attainment of which its parts work. Social organization is that system which maintains this activity in its proper from.
According to Elliati and Mervill, “Social organization is a state of being, a condition in which the various institutions in a society are functioning in accordance with their recognized or implied purposes.”
