Sunday 28 December 2014

INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND SOCIETY

Individual, Family, and Society






Definition of Individual

"individual" is derived from the Latin word, "Individuum" means "undivided". So, the individual is the smallest unit of society. In the social sciences, individual means also the smallest part of a group of people who can not be separated again into smaller parts. basically, each individual has different characteristics. Individual who join together to form a group or community. Individual will have the same characteristics as the group which he joined.


Definition of growth

Growth can be interpreted as a quantitative changes in material things as a result of environmental influences. The quantitative changes can be enlarged or added from nothing into existence, from small to a larger one, from a narrow become wide, and others.

Factors that affect the growth :

             The establishment of nativistic
According to experts of this group found that growth is solely determined by factors inborn and similarity (specific gene) between children and parents.

            The establishment of Empiristic and Environmentalistic
Experts believes, that the individual growth depends solely on the environment, and basic has no role at all. So according to this establishment refuses base in individual growth and further emphasis on the environment and, consequently, only the environment was much discussed.

             The establishment of convergence and interactionism
This thing is found between the basic and environmental interactions can determine individual growth.

Individual growth phase based on psychology

1. the vital period ie from age 0.0 to about 2 years.

2. The aesthetic of the age of approximately 2 years to about 7 years.

3. The period of intellectual approximately 7 years to about 13 years or 14 years.

4. The period of social, approximately age 13 or 14 years until approximately 20-21 years.


Definition of Family and Its function

The family is the unit / unit of the smallest community which constitute a small group in society. The group is in relation to to development of the individual is often known as the primary group. This group gave birth to individuals to various forms of personality in society.

The family has four characteristics that give clarity about the concept of family.

1.            The family is composed of people who are united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption. That bind husband and wife is marriage, which unites parents and children are related by blood (usually) and sometimes coral adoption.

2.            The members of a family usually live together in one house, and they formed a household sometimes a household that consists of a married couple without children, or to one or two children.

3.            The family is a unity of people who interact and communicate with each other, which plays the role of husband and wife, father and mother, son and daughter.

4.            The family maintains a common culture largely derived from the wider public culture.

The core family consisting of father, mother, and children. From the work of Emile Durkheim on family sociology comes the term: Conjugal family / core family: the family in a monogamous marriage. Koentjaraningrat distinguish three kinds of extended family based on its shape:

1.            utrolocal extended family, customary utrolokal, composed of senior nuclear family to families of conjugal / core boys and girls.

2.            viriolocal extended family, indigenous Based viriolokal, consisting of a senior nuclear family to nuclear families of the boys.

3.            Extended family uxorilocal, based indigenous uxorilokal, consisting of a senior nuclear family to families batih / core daughters.

Definition of Family's function

The function of is a jobs or tasks that must be implemented in or by the family.
Family functions according to Friedman, 1998 (in Setiawati & Courtesy, 2008) are:

a)            Affective functions
Affective function is an internal function of the family as the the basic strength of the family. Therein associated to mutual love, mutual support and mutual respect among members ancestry.

b)            Socialization function
Socialization function is a function that is developing a process of interaction in the family. Socialization begins at birth and family is a place of individuals to learn to socialize.

c)            Reproductive function
Reproductive function is a function of the family to carry on offspring survival and increase human resources.

d)            Economic Functions
The economic function is a function of the family to meet the needs of all family members, namely: clothing, food and shelter.
e)            Function Health Care
The function of health care is a family function to prevent health problems and caring for family members with health problems.

Definition of Society

In English society used the term that comes from the Latin word socius, which means "friend", community term itself comes from the root of the Arabic word that Syaraka which means "to participate, participating".

Drs. Major JBAF Polak call society is the inter-relationship of all container consists of a lot of social-kolektivas as well as groups and each group consisted of groups or subgroups better.

According to Prof. MM Djojodiguno society is a unanimity of all the developments in the life shared between human and other human.

In the development and growth society can be classified into:

1.            Modest society In Modest societies (primitive) patterns of division of labor tends to be differentiated according to gender. The division of labor by sex, seems to stem from the starting of the background of the weakness and physical abilities between a woman and a man in the face of challenges when the nature is wild.
2.            Advanced society Advanced society has a variety of social group needs, or better known as community organizations that group grew and developed based on the needs and specific objectives to be achieved. In advanced societies, can be distinguished:
a.            The non-industrial society. Broadly speaking, the national group or non-industrial
civil society organizations can be classified into two categories, namely primary group (primary group) and the secondary group (secondary group).
  •       Primary Group

In the primary group, the interaction between members established more intensive, more closely, more familiar. The primary group is also called the "face to face group", because the group members often engage in dialogue, face to face, because it was to know each other more closely, more akrab.Sifat interaksidalam patterned primary groups based on kinship and sympathy.
The division of labor or the division of tasks in the group, which receive and execute tasks idak forcible, more emphasis on awareness, responsibility and the members took place on the basis of sympathy and voluntarily. Examples of primary groups, among others: family, neighborhood, study groups, religious groups, and so forth.
  •          Secondary group

Between members of the secondary group, adrift indirect mutual relations, formal, less also be kekeluargaan.Oleh Therefore, the nature of the interaction, the division of labor among the members of the group are set on the basis of rational considerations. Objective.
The members accept the division of labor / tasks on the basis of ability: specific skills, in addition to the dedication required. Such things were necessary to achieve the specific goals and objectives that have existed in the programs that have been agreed upon. Examples of secondary groups, for example: political parties, associations of trade unions / labor unions, professional organizations and so on.

b.            Industrial Society
Society has intelligence / special skills independently owned, to a certain extent. Example baker, shoemaker, turner, welder.

Conclusion :

So, individuals, families, and society greatly affect the surrounding environment. Communities that will better reflect the lives of families and individuals in the neighborhood. An individual gets his rights of the family in the form of education, etc. so that people can live well in society.
According to Ellwood, the factors that cause humans to live together, are:
o             The urge for foraging.
o             The urge to defend themselves.
o             The urge to establish the offspring.


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