Transformation of Human Relations by Social Systems

Transformation of Human Relations by Social Systems
The group is the first shaper of the personality, and the group itself is shaped by society.
The unity of man and society He retains his unique and independent individuality and makes
his contribution to the social whole: just as society itself shapes human beings, so human beings
shape society.
This section deals with how human relations transformed by social systems specifically,
on knowledge, economics, and technology.
1. New knowledge
“Know thyself” is the main idea of Socrates of good living. His saying “Knowledge
is Virtue; ignorance is a vice” is a summation of what he wants to teach about how
human beings should live a good life. Ignorance as opposite of knowledge, is the source
of evil. Humanity commits evil because people do not know any better.
2. Policy Making
At present one of the most important consequences of the application of this new
knowledge to human affairs has been increased integration of policy making. In the
private realm, systems, of transportation, communication, business, and education
have tended to become larger and more centralized. Most communication at the
national level have become unified, and many ae now organized on a worldwide basis.
Similarly, in the public realm, governments have increasingly tended accumulate
functions formerly performed by the province, district, tribe or family.
Even the most tyrannical of governments in earlier times did not have the degree
of control over individuals that is now normally exercised by government in advanced
societies. As life has become more complex, the legal system has also grown to the
point where almost all human activities come in contact with the law in one form or
another. This integration of policy making has brought people within states into an
unprecedentedly closer relationship and has resulted in a greater complexity of social
organization.
3. Economic Sphere
The effects of new knowledge have been partially noticeable in economic sphere.
Technical improvements have made possible a mechanization of labor that has resulted
in mass production, the raped growth in per capita productivity, and an increasing division
of labor.
The contrast today between the level of living irrelatively modern centuries and that
in traditional societies is very marked, indeed. Economic changes will be further discussed
in its direct correlation to the social real. (Ramos 2003; Nye &Welch 2013)
4. Social Realm
Equally important are the changes that have taken place in the social realm.
Traditional societies are typically closed and rigid in their structure. The members of such
societies are primarily peasants living relatively isolated villages, poor, and illiterate, and
having little contact with the central political authorities. The way of life of the peasants
may remain virtually unchanged for centuries. Modern knowledge and the technology it
have created have had an immense impact on this traditional way of life.
In a modern society two- thirds or more of the population lives in cities, and literacy
is virtually universal. Health has also greatly improved. Cosmopolitan criteria of personal
association replace the restraints between peasants, townspeople, and aristocrats have
given way to a more homogeneous society in which one’s position depends more on
individual achievement than on inherited status (Heidegger 1997).
This complex and interrelated series of changes in humanity’s way of life is generally
known as modernization. Modernization has changed the power relationships among
societies by rapidly strengthening the position of some at the expense of others. The process
within each of the individual societies has also been undertaken and by pressures exerted
by the worldwide influence of the early modernizers.
Although the world is becoming more and more unified, it is not becoming more and
more integrated. While it is a single system, it is driven by conflict and there is by no means
universal agreement on what shape the single system should take in the future;
globalization follows the path of its own inexorable logic. We are immersed in a paradoxical
situation. On the other hand, the weight of nationalisms or regionalism contribute to
reinforce the type of individualism that excludes the other, be it the other human being of
the other group. In other words, events in any part of the world that have consequences
for or be referenced against events in other distant parts may not always be positive that
are far more intractable than the previous disputes between nations (Wills& Hathaway
2013)
5. Technology
The more society is influenced by technology the more we need to consider the
social, ethical and technological and scientific aspects of each decision and choice
(German 2000). This will require the capability to consider and evaluate the standards
employed in the choice and implementation of scientific research and technological
development in relation to the aspirations of the people.
The ability to evaluate the products of science and technology in relation to

culture and value, as well as the aspiration of a nation, is important needs to be nurtured
and developed through social and cultural education, for science and technology is
much too important to be left to engineers and economists alone.
Science has greatly influenced the picture we have of human existence and
what is essential to humanity. Therefore, the difficulty to the period of rapid change
challenges us to discover more about what is fundamental to our existence.
At present science and technology is not a single phenomenon. On the other

hand, they have become an ideology. In particular, technology cannot be taken to
mean only products such as machinery, electronics, or other public consumer goods. It
is also the knowledge and consciousness and our powers of abstraction. Technology is
not taken as an object but as our whole attitude toward the human world. In modern
era this attitude is manifested theoretically in scientific development and technological
innovation. In other words, science and technology are, in fact in a broader sense, the
culture itself.

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