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]]>It is the social interaction between two individuals. When doctor is treating a patient, it is interaction between two individuals’ doctor and patient. Doctor is treating, patient is being treated, doctor ask questions about physiological problems, patient answer to the best of his/her knowledge, doctor prescribes medicine, and patient take those medicine according to the prescription. All of this two way communication between doctor and patient is social interaction between two individuals. Mother feeding her child and the shopkeeper and customer encounter can also be categorized as social interaction between two individuals.
This is the form in which the physical and symbolic interaction is between the individual and group. Teacher teaching a class of 45 students, the communication is between the group of 45 and an individual. An employee suing his firm, speaker addressing the assembly are the examples of interaction between group and individual.
This is the form in which the physical and symbolic interaction is between the two groups. Two delegates discussing the alternative solutions for a problem, two countries in war with each other, two teams playing cricket match are the some examples of the interaction between two groups.
It is the form of socialization in which Individual interact with culture, via attending cultural events, watching movies and TV shows on satellite, presence on social media, reading magazines, newspapers and books etc. are few sociocultural activities through which an individual learn things and interact with other cultures as well. The things which an individual learn and adopt from mass media, with the passage of time becomes part of his/her own culture. On the other hand, few individuals may not like or approve of some TV shows and channels or medium of communication however, individual has a choice to watch and not to watch certain channel and can choose medium of communication by his own will, that’s what makes the process reciprocal.
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]]>There are two types of social interaction, which are as follow, direct or physical social interaction and symbolic interaction.
Direct interaction is the physical action amongst the individual. Physical interaction influence the actions of others in different ways. It requires the involvement of two and more than two individual and physical action or physical contact among them. For example, pulling, biting, boxing, playing cricket or football, wrestling etc. comes under the category of physical or direct social interaction. Furthermore, match between two team and war between two armies, both are physical social interaction.
Such interaction involves symbols and language. The common way of communication in human society is language. Every society has its language and the people of that society share that common language to communicate with each other such process is known as symbolic process. People share their feelings, thoughts and ideas via language. It is two way or reciprocal process between two and more than two individuals. Way of communication in human society is far more effective than animal society. Language is the foundation of development, expansion and evolution of culture. Animals do not have culture because they lack the trait of common language. Language is used to preserve the great experiences of mankind to transmit to the next generation. In the process of transmitting culture to the next generation language plays a vital role. Correspondence through e mail, social media and telephone also comes under the category of symbolic interaction.
BY Khushdil Khan Kasi
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]]>Social interaction is the building block of sociology. Sociology is the study of society, in order to understand society sociologist have to observe the social interaction amongst individuals. Social interactions is the process through which individuals in the society act and react towards each other. Social life of an individual initiate via the process of interaction. Social inter action is considered to be the key factor for analyzing the social life in the society. To put it in a nutshell social interaction is the fundamental factor and foundation of the social processes, social group, social structure, social order and social function. The gateway of sociology is social interaction.
Social interaction is defined and explained by multiple sociologist in different way. According to Dawson and Gettyes, social interaction is a process via which an individuals in a society merge the mind with one another. Merrill is of the view that, social interaction is the process where two or more people are in contact and the outcome of the contact is slight modification in the behavior of individuals. Moreover, cockiness defined social interaction as the process which influences the state of mind and overt behavior of an individual.
In the light of all the definition social interaction can be defined as the process which occurs between two and more individuals. It is the two way process in nature. The process can be entitled as stimulus response condition, among two and more than two people. When two people communicate with one another there is an interaction between them. When two people respond to each other on internet, phone and face to face it means there is interaction between them. A mother feeding her child is interacting with her child. Shopkeeper selling products to the customer, doctor treating the patient and children playing football together. In all the above example there is social interaction amongst individuals.
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