What do you understand by society? …

1. Society is abstract: If society is viewed as web of social relation­ships, it is distinct from physical entity which we can see and perceive through senses.  2. Likeness and difference in society: Society involves both likeness and difference. If people are all exactly alike, merely alike, their relationships would be limited. There would be little give-and- take and little reciprocity. If all men thought alike, felt alike, and acted alike, if they had the same standards and same interests, if they all accepted the same customs. 3. Cooperation and conflict in society: Cooperation and conflict are universal elements in human life. Society is based on cooper­ation but because of internal differences, there is conflict also among its members.

Society is a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things. and sharing the work that needs to be done.