week 4: social processes:role,power,authority,role allocation

The fundamental ways in which people establish social relationship and interact are called social process. ... Social interaction normally occurs in the form of accommodation, assimilation, cooperation, competition and conflict. These forms of social interaction are also called as social processes.The concept of social process refers to some of the general and recurrent forms that social interaction may take. The interaction or mutual activity is the essence of social life. Interaction between individuals and groups occurs in the form of social process. Social processes refers to forms of social interaction that occur again and again.