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Sociology Preliminary Social Structure, Social Organisation, Social System, Social Action

“We arrive at the structure of a society through abstracting from the concrete population and its behaviour the pattern or network of relationship obtaining between actors in their capacity of playing roles relative to one another”. Who gave this statement :

S.F. Nadel

Radcliffe Brown

R. Firth

H. Gerth and C.W. Mills

Explanation:

- Let’s break it down. The statement is about understanding society by focusing on relationships between the roles people play, not just the raw facts about people.

- Here’s who’s who:

- S.F. Nadel (Option 1): Nadel is famous for his work on social structure, especially his idea that social structure is basically the sum of these patterned relationships and roles. That’s exactly the mindset this quote comes from.

- Radcliffe-Brown (Option 2): He’s all about social structure too, but he focuses more on function and the “organism” of society—less about abstracting roles.

- R. Firth (Option 3): He’s huge in economic anthropology and social organization, but the specific focus on roles and relationships, abstracted like this? Not really his main argument.

- H. Gerth and C.W. Mills (Option 4): These guys worked together on translating Weber and focused on sociology, but their main buzz is about action theory and meaning, not quite what’s described here.

- What this really means is: Nadel is zooming out on society, stripping away the messiness and looking at the bones—the roles and patterned interactions. That’s signature Nadel.