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2 Can we all just get along?
Society Can we all just get along?

3 Social Contract Human beings are social creatures who mostly prefer to live in groups. Because individuals must interact with others within a society, there must be systems which allow for the procreation of life, making decisions, producing goods, creating meaning and purpose (religion, language & culture), and organizing people into an orderly society. Many social organizations have been established within Canadian society to deal with the universal problems of ordered social life.

4 Examples of Social Organizations
families in their many different organizational forms provide for the needs of both adults and children. educational organizations aid in the socialization process and in the transmission of culture from generation to generation. political organizations meet the needs of people by making collective decisions. economic organizations meet the material needs of individuals within society. aesthetic and recreational organizations meet artistic and recreational needs of people. religious organizations meet the spiritual needs of people.

5 Social Contract In the reality of daily living, a tension exists between the needs and wants of individuals, groups of individuals, and the needs and wants of the larger society. People cannot live together successfully unless there is some basic agreement about the fundamentals of life that can be relied on to give predictability and order.

6 Every social grouping has a set of understandings, often tacit, which everyone in the group subscribes to. These understandings must, in some way, define for all members of the group how they can expect to be treated and how they are expected to treat others.

7 A Social Contract is An agreement between
the members of a group deciding who will be: T he leaders and the followers and defines the rights and the duties of each member either by stating them clearly or through an understanding that everyone just accepts without discussing.

8 A Social Contract is: Family an agreement between the leaders and the followers defining the rights of the leaders and of the followers And defining the duties of The leaders And followers which may be defined both explicitly implicitly


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