Individual, Family, and Society

DEFINITION

Individual

     Individual is a person or a specific object. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own or goals. 

   Individuals will not be clearly identified without a society that becomes its existence background. Individuals try to take the distance and their process to form their behavior that is consistent with the circumstances and a habitual that fit to their existed behavioral. Individual as human is always in the middle of a group of individuals which at once in maturity to become the person with requires process in environment that can be shaped it personal. However, not all environments supporting factors of personal formation but sometimes will be the barrier to the process of personal formation. Influence of the communities environment against individuals and especially in the formation of individuality, but otherwise the individual is capable to influence the society. The ability of individuals is a priority in their relation to humans. 

Family 

     In human context, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption (see Nurture kinship). Members of the immediate family may include a spouse, parent, brother and sister, and son and daughter. Members of the extended family may include grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew and niece, or sibling-in-law. In most societies the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children. As the basic unit for raising children, anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children; also called nuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended family in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family. As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for anthropologists and sociologists of the family. Sexual relations among the members are regulated by rules concerning incest such as the incest taboo. Family also spend time together to know each other.

     "Family" is used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, global village and humanism.

     From the definition can be concluded that the family is: 

• The smallest unit of society 
• Consisting of 2 people or more 
• The existence of marital bond or blood relatives 
• Living in a household 
• Under the care of a head of household 
• Interact among members of the family 
• Each family member has their respective roles 
• Created, maintain a culture  

 Society

     Society is a grouping of individuals which are united by a network of social relations, traditions and may have distinctive culture and institutions.
Society may also refer to:

• used exclusively, within the upper class, see high society (group)
• a voluntary association (club, company)
  • University society, a student club
  • Society of apostolic life, a group within the Catholic Church

     From the definition can be concluded that society are:

• Community of many individuals which are bound by customary units, law and life together 
• Social unity that has a close relationship 
• Community of independent individuals and live together in a long time.

RELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND SOCIETY

     Individuals can be regarded as an individual if the typical of their behavior was projected in a social environment which called society. Units of the social environment that surrounds the individual consists of 

families, institutions, communities and that society.

1. The relationship between individuals and family
 

Individuals have a close relationship with the family, such as father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, brother, and sister. This relationship can be based on the values, norms and rules that attached to the family concerned.
With the family relationship, the individual have the rights and obligations inherent in the family at the end.

2. The relationship between individuals and institutions
 

Institution is defined as a set of norms which are constantly being made by humans because the norms that provide benefits to them.
Individuals have a mutual influence relationship with institutions around him. Jobs environment can form the individual in forming personality. Individual nature of the Jobs environment can act as a director, chairman and so on. If an individual work, he will be affected by the job environment.

3. The relationship between individuals and the community
 

Community can be defined as a unit of a number of people living together which have limited territorial, has similarities against something and organizational planning a life together.
Community includes individuals, families and independent institutions.

4. The relationship between individuals and society
 

Individual relationships with society situated in mutual uphold human rights and obligations as an individual and social human beings. Which are individual rights and community rights should be known by priority to the society rights rather than individual rights. Mutual cooperation is the people rights, while with family recreation, entertainment, shopping is an individual right which should prioritize the rights society.