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✗ Can be defined as a product of human interactions as humans subscribe to the rules of their culture.

✗ It is an organization that caters to a human’s need for belongingness in a group.

· A compilation of ways and means by which humans interact with each other within the confines of a society.

· The prevailing culture within a society dictates the forms of interaction used by individuals with one another.

It is not merely defined by an actual physical contact, as it covers every human interchange that is within a mutually subjective orientation

· Refers to the interrelationship of parts of a society.

· Society is an organization itself.

· It is structurally divided into layers of contexts and positions that help perpetuate its existence.

· A set of accepted behaviors that define the individual’s responses and inclinations

· The basic unit of an organization.

· It involves at least two individuals who are in constant interactions based on their statuses and roles.

Institutions

· Considered as building blocks of society, as it is through these that norms are produced from the consistent exchanges of individuals and groups.

· The foundation of every society from which emanates the possible roles, institutions and behaviors, and organization.

· Defined as individuals or groups reflecting, acting, modifying, and giving significance of the teaching of science in purposeful ways, with the aim of empowering and transforming themselves or the conditions of their lives . . . Action-oriented.

· It is the study that involves social structures such as institutions, social groups, social stratification, social mobility, and ethnic groups

· The study of the impact of group life to a person’s nature and personality.

· The branch of sociology that inquires on the shift in social and cultural interactions and the interruption of its process through delinquency, deviance, and conflicts.

Inquires on the interrelationship between population characteristics and dynamics with that of a political, economic, and social system

· This pursues studies that relate human behavior to existing social institutions.

· Uses sociological research and methods to solve contemporary problems. It often uses interdisciplinary approach to better address social problems.

✗ Perceives society as quantifiable subject from which objective conclusions can be made.

✗ Society is like an organism that could be measured through logic and mathematics.

✗ Perceives society as quantifiable subject from which objective conclusions can be made.

Society is like an organism that could be measured through logic and mathematics

✗ It promotes a subjective approach wherein social phenomena are understood through individual experiences.

✗ Requires qualitative methods in gathering data such interviews, participant-observations, and other tools for ethnography.

· Refers to the ability of sociologist to understand society systematically

✗It is assumed that by statistically understanding the phenomenon, its future directory can be predicted and addressed efficiently.

✗This orientation allows for a macro-level analysis of society.