Discuss how far is accommodation important for social processes ?
1. Accommodation is important for the social organisation. After conflict, it requires adjustment between the parties involved. This is necessary for continuation and main tenance of the status quo in social organisation.
2. Indian society is divided into a number of castes having unequal social and economic statuses. This caste system has been based on unequal social relationships. However, throughout the Indian history, these castes have been characterised by harmonious and disharmonious relationships. This shows a continuous process of adjustment among the different caste groups, i.e., the process of accommodation.
3. After independence, efforts have been made to create adjustment among the different groups. To abolish untouchability, laws have been made and special opportunities have been provided in jobs and education for the lower castes.
4. Protection of rights of the minorities through fundamental rights is considered as the process of accommodation.
5. The history of the caste system and its development as an institution is largely written in terms of adjustment.
6. Accommodation pre-supposes adjustment. This adjustment may be found as a continuous process in the existing institutional structure. It is found at the level of individuals and groups when an individual or group tries to adjust himself / itself into some new position or status.
7. Accommodation is a vital basis of social organisation. Burgers defines social organization as the sum total of accommodation to past and present situations.
8. All the social heritage, traditions, sentiments, culture techniques are accommodations. They are acquired adjustments that are socially and not biologically transmitted.
