Competitionoften proceeds with a high degree of orderliness conflict is characterized bypronounced disorderliness.Ĭompetition is the social process or form of socialinteraction in which two or more individual or groups strive against each otherfor the possession or use of some material or non-material good.Competitiondoes not injure the opponent directly or necessarily change his status conflict could result in both.Competition isoften unconscious conflict is a conscious interaction.Competition isopposition without personal contact and attack conflict frequently involvescontact and attack.Competition iscontinuous, taking place in all places and situations where livingorganizations exist conflict is intermittent arising in crisis situations.The two processes differ in the following ways: Two forms ofopposition are distinguishable, namely competition and conflict. Opposition is the struggle of one against the other inthe attempt to achieve something good, while cooperation is the unification ofthe efforts of one with the other in the attempt to attain a goal. Opposition and cooperation are twoimportant social processes. It is therefore important that a student of the rural societyshould understand how these and other rural social processes are operating. When two cultures are blended, the process involved isacculturation. One culture may absorb the otherthrough assimilation. Whensome cultures coexist in a society through mutual adoption, they are able to dothis through the process of accommodation. Farmerswho successfully grow their dry season vegetables by obtaining irrigation waterfrom other sources than that used by the community might attract the same groupof customers to buy their products through the process of competition. Their resistance might lead to open hostility or conflict. The few community members who are hereby deprived of their usualsource of water for irrigating their farm might disagree with others on thisproposal. Sometimes the rural people join hands toaccomplish some tasks such as digging of a community source of water throughcooperation. The interaction of people in the rural area is withinthe context of some dynamic processes. Social processes then refer to“repetitive forms of behaviour which are commonly found in social life”. Social interaction which assumes a repetitive pattern in aspecific direction becomes a social process. Social interaction is, “society in action” and has been defined asthe “dynamic interplay of forces in which contact between persons and groupsresult in a modification of the attitude and behaviour of the participants”(Suntherland, 1961). Interaction among the people of a society occurs withinthe structure of society in certain specific forms, referred to as socialprocesses. explain assimilation and acculturation.write explanatory note on the term“Cooperation”.discuss briefly the two forms of oppositionnamely competition and conflict.
After studying this topic, you are expected to have achieved the objectives listed below.Īfter studying this topic, you should be able to: Here, you will read about the major basic social processes which comprise: competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation, assimilation and acculturation. Social processes in rural society will be discussed in this article. In our previous post, we discussed social stratification, its functions and dysfunctions.
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