The question of what a society is is one of the most difficult questions of social science. All the sciences that study society have made their concrete contribution to a single piggy bank about it. So how do you define the concept of "society"?
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The definition of society can be given both in a broad and in a narrow sense.
In a broad sense, society is a separate part of nature, which is a historically changing form of development of human life.
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In the narrow sense of the word, this is a certain stage in the development of mankind.
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In its original meaning, society is a community. Commonness is defined as a form of coexistence or interaction, cooperation of people connected by a common language, origin, destiny. A striking example is a family or people.
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There are several different approaches that can be used to define society.
- naturalistic
Society is seen as a natural continuation of the laws of nature, the world, animals and space. From these positions, the type of social structure and the course of history is determined by the rhythms of the solar system, the activity of cosmic radiation. These views were held by L. Gumilev and A. Zhevsky.
- idealistic
According to this approach, the essence of the bonds uniting people into a single whole lies at the basis of certain beliefs, ideas, myths and legends.
- atomistic
Society is the sum of individuals bound by a mutual agreement.
- organic
Society is a single whole - this is a certain system, divided into several parts. A person here realizes himself not through an agreement, but through the consent of the rest of the society to certain actions. such consent is called consensus.
- materialistic - the most famous approach.
It was developed by K. Marx. The essence of this approach is that such production relations and such a mode of production that does not depend on the will of people are formed in society. He believed that people in society are not connected by a common idea, contract or god, but by a mode of production.
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Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that society is a complex organization with a high level of self-sufficiency, in a state of unstable equilibrium and subject to the objective laws of functioning and development.
