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Social interaction involves contact between individuals, groups, or individuals and groups or culture that results in slight behavioral modifications. There are different forms of social interaction including between individuals, individuals and groups, groups and groups, and individuals and culture. Examples of social interaction include interactions between a customer and shopkeeper, doctor and patient, singer and audience, or person and group. Types of social interaction and processes include opposition (competition and conflict), cooperation, accommodation, assimilation, and acculturation. Competition involves a struggle for limited resources while conflict occurs when people compete for inadequate material or non-material resources. Cooperation is necessary for any society to develop, while accommodation involves social adjustment. Assimilation removes cultural differences between dissimilar individuals or groups,

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Social Interaction

Social interaction involves contact between individuals, groups, or individuals and groups or culture that results in slight behavioral modifications. There are different forms of social interaction including between individuals, individuals and groups, groups and groups, and individuals and culture. Examples of social interaction include interactions between a customer and shopkeeper, doctor and patient, singer and audience, or person and group. Types of social interaction and processes include opposition (competition and conflict), cooperation, accommodation, assimilation, and acculturation. Competition involves a struggle for limited resources while conflict occurs when people compete for inadequate material or non-material resources. Cooperation is necessary for any society to develop, while accommodation involves social adjustment. Assimilation removes cultural differences between dissimilar individuals or groups,

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Social Interaction

Merrill:
social interaction is the process of
contact where the behavior modifies
slightly Modifies slightly.

Form of social interaction


Between individual and individual
Between individual and groups
Between groups and groups
Between individual and culture

Between individual and individual


customer and shop keeper

Doctor and patient

situations for social


interaction
Person
to
person

Between individual and group

singer and audience

Person
to-group

Group-to-group

Types / Forms of Social Interaction


/ Social Process
Opposition

competition

Conflict

Cooperation

Accommodation

Assimilation &
Acculturation

Opposition
This is the disassociate form of social
interaction. it includes competition & conflict.

Opposition or Disassociation:
In every institution there is competition and
competition may be called as struggle between
two or more individuals, who are striving to get
something which is relatively limited.the modern
world creates many environments for the
existence of competition
-sports
-marketplace
-educational system
-political system

Conflict
When people are competing for inadequate
material and non material products.
Objects of conflict
The objects of conflict may be:
a) Power
b) Status
c) property

Difference between competition & conflict


Competition

Conflict

1. Competition
is
the
continuous process and it
is never ending.
2. It is impersonal
3. It is unconscious and the
individuals and groups are
not aware of it.
4. It encourages hard work.
5. It is based on nonviolence.

1. It is not continuous
process. At some stage it
must come to an end.
2. It is personal.
3. it is conscious and the
individual and groups are
aware and know each
other.
4. It discourages hard work
for law in conflict.
5. Violent methods may be
used in conflict.

Cooperation
No society can develop without cooperation. In
Pakistani society we find a few examples of
cooperation. e.g.
In the farms the rural cooperate with their neighbors
in watering the crops, harvesting the crops.
In urban areas the people cooperate with each other
in different ways. Such cooperation is found between
the customer and shop keepers, teachers and
students, the owner and the laborers, the doctor and
the patient.

Accommodation
The parents accommodate their children even at the
cost of sacrificing their own desires.
Smith
defines accommodation as social adjustment
e.g. adjustment of man to both natural and manmade environment.

assimilation
Ogburn & Nimkoff:
it means two dissimilar individuals or groups which
become similar by removing their cultural
differences.

Acculturation
The first step towards assimilation is called
acculturation. In other words it is cultural
modification.
e.g.
Permanent settlement of migrants people e.g. people
from India and Afghanistan in Pakistan.

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