FORMS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION || TYPES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

 FORMS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION WHICH ARE GIVEN BELOW:

There are four forms of social interaction which are given below:

1. Individual to Individual:

It is the basic form of social interaction, in which two individuals interact with one another and everyone gets affected. The interaction between doctor and patient, customer and shopkeeper, and mother with her child are various examples in this form. When the mother loves her child, the child is affected, although he is unconscious and as a result, he shows movement in response, due to which mother is affected. 

2. Individual to Group:

It operates one person with a group/audience. For example, the lecture of a professor to his class, the speech of a political leader before a large number of people, the speech of the president or prime minister of Pakistan on the radio to the nation. 

3. Group to Group:

This is found between two groups in which one group is affected physically as well as mentally on the other group. For example, a match played between two teams, delegations of the two countries and armed forced of the two countries, etc. 

4. Between Individuals to culture. 

Types of Social Interaction

Following are the types of social interaction.

1.Symolic Interaction:

For the running of the social system, the most effective approach is used is called symbolic interaction. According to Robertson, the interaction between people that takes place through symbols such as signs, gestures and language is called symbolic interaction.

The theorists of symbolic interaction stress that human relations do not need direct interaction as they have set earlier and they understand each other and responding instantly. For example, the children express their desires and wish their parents when they are in a pleasant and happy mood. They do not express any demand or thing when they see their parents in anger. It shows that symbolic interaction is the combination of gestures, postures, symbols, words, and body language which are used by the people to get the attention of one another.

2.Physical Interaction:

In physical interaction, people affect each other by physical movements and gestures. For example, boxing in which the players affect one another physically, handshaking warmly, etc. Herbert Blumer and his colleagues argue that symbolic interaction is a creative process and man ignores the sentiments of each other in this interaction but in physical interaction, it is not possible because both forms create social interaction.