ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that humans are group animals who survive and become true human beings as a result of being members of groups. It examines that within each group; individuals are assigned statuses and carry out roles, a condition that makes each group a social system. The chapter analyses the largest group to which people belong is society and refers that there has been a trend away from the small, traditional societies of the past to the large associational societies of the present. In the modern world, there has been an easily observable shift from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft societies. The chapter focuses on four primary social processes: exchange, cooperation, competition, and conflict. It discusses the way to manage life in large, complex societies is through the establishment of formal organizations that depend on bureaucracy to function. It also examines that every group, whether it consists of only two people or many millions of people, is basically a social system.
