Social Organization

Ogburn and Nimkoff have defined organization is an Technical arrangement of different parts which perform various functions; it is an active group device for getting something done.

Social Organization means social interaction among groups. Individual groups interrelated together create social organization.

All the social institutions are social organizations.

Associations, clubs, and all other formal groups are social organizations.

In an organized body its members get into one another on the basis of roles and status.

Interaction among the members sets them into organizations.

Social organization is the product of social interaction.

Social Interaction-----------Social Organization---------------Social system..

Individuals in a social organization perform their activities according to their social positions called status.

The activities done in an organization are called roles of the members.
Even individuals performs his roles according to his status.
So status and Roles are the basis of social participation in an organization.
Eliott and Merrill says, organization is a state of being, a condition in which the various institutions in a society are functioning in accordance with their