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Social interaction refers to the mutual stimulation and response between individuals and groups through communication. It is the foundation of society and includes social contact, communication, and shared social attitudes and values. Social contact involves incidental interactions between people, while communication can be verbal, non-verbal, or visual. Social attitudes are learned orientations toward people, objects, or situations that motivate responses and are shaped by group membership and experiences.

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Social Interaction 1

Social interaction refers to the mutual stimulation and response between individuals and groups through communication. It is the foundation of society and includes social contact, communication, and shared social attitudes and values. Social contact involves incidental interactions between people, while communication can be verbal, non-verbal, or visual. Social attitudes are learned orientations toward people, objects, or situations that motivate responses and are shaped by group membership and experiences.

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SOCIAL INTERACTION – refers to the mutual inter-stimulation and response between persons

and groups through symbols, language, gestures and expression of ideas.

- It is a foundation and building block of society.

ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

1. Social Contact – in the sociological hierarchy leading up to social relations, it is an


incidental social interaction between individuals
- In social networks, a node (representing an individual or organization) to which another
node is socially connected.

Examples: visiting friends and family


Telephoning
2. Communication- it’s root word in Latin is communicare, which means to share, or to
make common.
- Is a social interaction with individuals constantly altering their signals in response to the
history of the immediate interaction and in response to the history of the social
relationships between individuals.
- Includes:
 Verbal Communications (phone calls)
 Non verbal Communication (smiling unintentionally when you hear something
pleasing)
 Visual Communication (drawing, sketches)
3. Social Attitudes and Values – social attitudes are learned, relatively enduring
organization of beliefs about an object or situation which leads to a disposition to
respond or rather a readiness to respond in a given way.

According to Sherif (1956)

There are distinguishing features of attitudes:

1. Attitudes are not innate – but learned, acquired and conditioned. They grow in the
society in the minds of men through various modes of training.
2. More or less lasting – Attitudes are never neutral. It can be either positive or negative,
favourable or unfavourable
3. Imply a subject –object relationship – they are associated with ideas, ways and external
objects
4. Involve individuals as well as groups – attitudes range in the number of which they are
referred. The strength and the range of an attitude depends upon the strength of an
experience and learning of the organism.
5. Motivational – affective properties – attitudes have affective properties of varying
degrees. They are linked with the feelings and emotions like pleasant, unpleasant, fear,
love,
6. Shared by the member of a group – attitudes can be changed depending upon the
circumstances, experiences and information through various processes of
communication or direct interaction.

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