People have group relations and behaviors {social organization}.
factors
Major social-organization determinants are birth rate, death rate, equilibrium population size, gene-flow rates, and kinship relations.
levels
Social-organization levels are interpersonal, including roles and social interactions; group, including group characteristics, interpersonal-relation initiation and preservation, and group relations; and social order, including community attitudes, behaviors, and conflicts.
social functions
Social functions are communication, production, distribution, military defense, medicine, member replacement, and social control. Communication uses common language. Communication, production, distribution, and defense require special technologies. Social organization and control depend on labor division and social stratification. These depend on individual statuses and roles and society's culture or ideology. Social control involves rules, values, beliefs, rewards, and punishments.
Plans for reaching complex common purposes {rational coordination}| are basis for social organization. Rational coordination typically has many workers that do repetitive jobs. Factories produce goods with organized workers along assembly lines. Factories make many similar things by mass production. Organizations have general rules, job specialization, and impersonal relations between people.
Governments depend on rational coordination {bureaucracy}|. Bureaucracies typically require professional managers. They have few interactions between bureaucratic levels. They have low personal satisfaction and low personal initiative.
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