The term 'overt' means visible or apparent. The term 'covert' means hidden or concealed. Overt behaviors can be observed. ... Overt behaviors are in the form of actions or verbal expressions. Covert conflict occurs when people have differences yet do not discuss them openly. ... Overt conflict occurs when people openly disagree and choose to confront (address) an issue with the other person. This occurs as a result of different perspectives, expectations, beliefs, values, and sometimes just information.

 

Man’s Life is a Group-Life :
(i) It is correct to say that ‘Man’s Life is a Group-life,’ Man is born in a group, brought up in a group, plays in a group, even learns in a group, progresses in a group and generally dies in society - again a social group.
(ii) We all live in society and bound together through certain norms, values costoms and practices. ‘We’ very often say that we belong to a society, and as members we share, certain traditions, historical experiences - These experiences may be painful or full of pleasures. All these experiences are transmitted to us by the previous generations or the groups of the people.
(iii) No individual can fulfil all his requirements without society or social groups. Division of labour is also possible in a group. Some members of a group have to produce food, others have to weave clothes, some have to erect houses, and so on so forth.
(iv) If a man is united to fulfil his needs, he is also at war with others (in a group) in certain other context.

 

Anthropology is study of the primitive, simple and traditional men, illiterate society. Sociology is the study of complex, modem man that may be illiterate/literate men/ differentiated society.

• Developmental details of society in a systematic and clear manner is subject matter of anthropology whereas sociology records happenings in the present day society in a scientific manner.

Scope of Sociology:
(i) Sociology is a systematic and objective study of social life, which is created by a variety of interactions between individuals and groups. When similar behaviour is repeated in a given situation it becomes a norm or an institution.
(ii) People in different statues and performing different roles, interact with other people formally or informally. All these repetitive actons are part of the culture of a given group and define the social organisation. Sociologists study individual's actions in different social relationships such as between husband and wife, teacher and student, buyer and seller, they also study different social processes such as child rearing. Co-operation, competition, conflict, and migration etc. and they study different organisation and groups. For examples family, caste, associations and state, etc.
(iii) Sociologist, therefore, in the study of social life as a whole. It has a wide range of concerns and interests. It seeks to provide classifications and forms of social relationships, institutions and associations realating to social, economic, moral, religions and political aspects of human life.

Sociology is a science which is difficult than other sciences. It helps to understand the society. Sociology is a social science, not a physical science, it studies human beings, the social behavior, social activities as well as social life. Sociology is the generalizing and not a particularizing or individualizing science :- Sociology tries to find out the general laws or principles about human interaction and association, about the nature, from, content and the structure of human groups and societies. 

 

Give and take among different disciplines (or subjects) :

(i) Sociology is one age group of social sciences, which also includes authropology, economics political science and history.
(ii) The division among various sociail sciences are not clearent, and all share a certain range of common interest, concepts and methods, Today there is greater gave and take among all disciplines because most subjects rela ted with social sciences are interrelated and upto some extent interdependent also.
(iii) Socilogy and Economics : (a) The sociological approach looks at economic behaviour in a broarder context of social norms, values, practices and interest. The coporate sectors managers are aware of this. The? large investment in the advertisment industry is directly linked to the need to re-shape lifestyles and consumption patterns.
(b) The define scope of economics has helped in facilating its development as a highly focused, coherent discipline, Sociologists often entry every the economists for the precision of their technology and the exactness of their measures. And the ability to traslate the results of their theortical work into practical suggestion having measure implication for public policy. Yet economists predictive ability often suffer precirely because of their neglect of individual behaviour, cultural norms and institutional resistance which sociologists study.
(c) Sociology unlike economics usually does not provide technical solutions. But it encourages a questioning and critical perspective. This helps questioning of basic assumptions. Recent trends have been seen a resurgence of economic sociology perhaps because of both this wider and critical perspective of sociology.
(d) Sociology provides clearer or more adequate understanding of a social situation than existed before. This can be either on the level of factual knowledge, or through gaining an improved group of why something is happening (in other words, by means of theoretical understanding).
Sociology and Political Science :
(a) Sociology is devoted to the study of all aspects of society, where as conventional political science restricted it self mainly to the study of power as embodied in formal organisation.

(b) Sociology stresses the interrelation ships between sets of institutions including government, where as political science tends to turn attention towards the processess within the government.

(c) Sociology long shared similar interests of research with political science. Sociologists like Max Weber worked in what can be termed as political sociology. The focus of political sociology has been increasingly on the actual study of political behaviour.

Sociology and History:
(a) Historians almost as a rule study the past, sociologists are more interested in the contemporary or recent past.

(b) History studies concreate detail while the sociologist is more likely to abstract from concrete reality, categorise and generalise.

(c) Conventional history has been about the history of kings and war. The history of less glamorous or exciting events or changes in land relations or gender relations within the family have traditionally been less studied by historians but formed the core area of the sociologist interest.

• A society is a group of people who share a common culture, occupy a territorial area and are bound to each other by a common history.
• Societies may be simple, may be complex. It is natural to human beings. We all are social beings. We cannot survive without society. We human beings cannot attain our goals alone, we want society. The society provides us security, relationship, identity and sense of belonging ness.
• Society is mandatory not only for mere survival but also for a good life.

Sociology is the study of social life of humans, their groups and societies. The subject matter of sociology is our own behaviour as social beings. It is important to study this subject, in order to understand the society as a whole. Hence, sociology helps us in the understanding of interconnectedness of the social systems across. It is important to study the origin and growth of sociology because it helps in shaping the subject matter according to its principles and perceptions. The study of the origin of the subject also helps us to understand the ideas that led to its origin.

 

Sociology studies societies that are different in size, characteristics, etc. by using certain methods, material contexts and methodologies. The study of growth of sociology shows the new ideas that were involved in making it a distinct subject of social science. These ideas which were gradually involved in bringing up this subject affects its subject-matter. Therefore, studying the origin and growth of sociology is important to understand the various institutions and their functions present in the society.

Society is a permanent organization. However, members of society are interdependent on each other for survival but it continues to exist even after the death of an individual. Society is dynamic, without change no society can survive long. Change may be slow or rapid. The Human and Social Dynamics funding instrument is a discipline-specific funding instrument which supports basic research in Social Science and the Humanities. ... The dynamics of human and social behavior. Social cohesion and identity. Societal change and the evolution of modern society.

Yes

Family is a taxonomic group containing one or more related genera eg. Family hominidae contains Apes, Monkeys and Man. In plants, families are categorized on the basis of vegetative and reproductive features.

Family is defined as a specific group of people that may be made up of partners, children,parents,aunts,uncles,cousins and grandparents. An example of a family is a set of parents living with their children.

Society is composed of a group of people, of those having common interest. ... Society forms norms and condition for itself and hence it is restricted according to those rules, norms, and conditions, given by the particular society to itself; also accordingly, is conferred with special privileges. 

There have been six types of societies throughout history:

• Hunting and gathering societies.
• Pastoral societies.
• Horticultural societies.
• Agricultural societies.
• Industrial societies.
• Post-industrial societies.

Family is where we are freely to confess anything ....family is the smallest group or society where we learn ethic and moral values

Status is a position taken by a person at different places in a society. In other words, status is an institutionalised role. There are different roles and status played by a boy or a girl during his/her life time. Being a girl, l play different roles and l have different status at different times. For example:- When l am in school then l play a role of student and when l am at home l play different roles like sister, daughter, environmentalist, social activist etc. Similarly, a boy plays different roles. Like he is a student when he is at school but a son at home and many more. Yes, l think that both status and role changes at different places. Consider this, if a person is at railway station then he/she might be a passenger but once he/she is at home then he/she takes the role of mother/father/son/sister etcetera. Thus, roles and status both are changed simultaneously.

Let me tell you it's a good question. So, here is the required answer:- we know that the society is divided or stratified in different strata or division. These division is based on different criteria. Our society has been divided on the basis of mainly these criteria:- gender, education level, caste and creed, number of members in a family, religion etcetera etcetera... Caste system in ancient times taught people to be apart from untouchable or harijan. This created stratification of society on the basis of caste. However, in modern times, it is still prevalent at some points. But, the caste thing is still present in our society. For example:- the reservation system gives SCs and STs a opportunity in jobs but those who are not in this category feel alienated and kind of division is made between them. Thus, these facts were two sides of the same coin called "society". Caste do cause stratification in society and as people are becoming literate, there is a high possibility that one day this caste based stratification will end.

It's a good question. Biologically, man is an animal. Man belongs to certain phylum. Like animals we have certain needs like food and shelter. Sociologically, man is different from animals. In fact, we can call man a "social animal". Man is different from animals as animals cannot do equality, liberty, democratic things but humans can do such. Humans have broad needs like gender equality, constitutional validity etcetera. Thus, he has to do many things apart from being an animal. We have different needs as dignity, respect and many more. Thus, socially we have different needs to maintain ourselves. Hence, it is right to say that man is a "social animal".

The term "sociological imagination" was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology.

social control can be both positive and negative.

society controls by establishing customs, traditions and social limits. These are used to discipline society.

but when these became suffocating then they have negative effects.

‘Society’ or ‘association’ refers to everything opposite of ‘community’, in particular the apparently impersonal, superficial and transitory relationships of modern urban life. Commerce and industry require a more calculating, rational and self-interesting approach to one’s dealings with others. We make contracts or agreements rather than getting to know one another. You may draw a parallel between the community with the primary group and the association with the secondary group.

the ideas of liberty and democratic rights we are the most important Legacy of the French Revolution this is spread from France to the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century where fundamental systems where abolished in inspired the Germans italians and Australian to overthrow their oppressive resigns the French Revolution inspired the struggling nations of Asia and Africa who were groaning under the operation of European colonialism

Community is the human relationships that are highly personal, entimate and enduring

An institution is something that works according to rules established or at least acknowledged by law or by custom. Thus, “an established and structured pattern of behaviour or of relationships that is accepted as a fundamental part of a culture” can be referred to as social institutions. There are social institutions that constrain and control, punish and reward. Social institutions can be macro like the state or micro like the family.

(1) Association is partial (2) It is an artificial creation. (3) It is formed by individuals for the pursuitoftheirindividual interest. (4) Significance of association for a person is so log as it serves their purpose. (5) Membership of association is voluntary. We choose our associations. (6) Community sentiment is not an essential feature. (7) It has got its office bearer to manage the affairs (8) It works mostly through written laws and rules

TYPES OF SOCIAL GROUPS
Different sociologists have classified social groups differently. In their classifications they take different criterion into account.
Primary Group and Secondary Group on basis of size/type of relationship
It is the most well known classification given by Cooley on the basis of size and type of relationship shared among its members.

Primary Group	Secondary Group
1. Primary group is small of people.	1. Secondary group is relatively large in size.
2. It is characterized by intimate, face to face, and emotional relationships.	2. It is marked by formal, and impersonal relationships.
3. For example, family and peer group	3. For example, Club, Residents Welfare Association

1. Social group refers to a collection of continuously interacting persons who share common interest; culture, values and norms within a given society. 2. Characteristics of social group (a) Persistent interaction to provide continuity (b) Astable pattern of these interactions (c) Asense of belonging (d) Shared interest (e) Acceptance of common norms and values (f) Adefinable structure