Association
Men have different
needs, desires, interest and ends. They have three ways to fulfill their ends.
Firstly they may act independently without bothering other; secondly they can
seek their ends conflict with other. Finally men may try to fulfill their ends
through the cooperation and mutual assistance. On the basis of this cooperative
efforts each individual contributing to the end of his fellow men. This
co-operative nature refers to the association. When a group or collection of
individual organized itself expressly for the purpose of pursuing certain of
its interests together on a cooperative pursuit, an association is said to be
born.
Definition
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An association is “an organization deliberately formed for the collective
pursuit of some interest or a set of interest, which its member share.” -MacIver
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“An association is a group of people organized for the achievement of a
particular interest or interests.”
Examples:-
ü Political association: Nepali
congress, Nepal communist party, Nepal student union etc.
ü Religious association: The Biswa
Hindu Parisad etc.
ü Labor association: national trade
union.
ü Professional association: Nepal
teacher association.
ü Economic association: hotel
association.
ü International association: lion
clubs, The rotary clubs
Characteristics of Association
A human group
An association is formed or created
by people. It is basically a social group. Without people there can be no
association. However, all groups are not associations, because, an association
is basically organized group. An unorganized group like crowd or mob cannot be
an association.
Common Interest
or Interests
An association is not merely a
collection of individuals. It consists of those individuals who have more or
less the same interests.
Accordingly, those who
have political interests may join political associations, and those who have
religious interests may join religious association and so on.
Cooperation
sprit
An association is based on the
co-operative spirit of its members. People work together to achieve some
definite purposes. For example, a political party has to work together as a
united group on the basis of cooperation in order to fulfill its objective of
coming to power.
Organization
Association denotes some kind of
organization. An association is known essentially as an organized group.
Organization gives stability and proper shape to an association. Organization
refers to the way in which the statuses and roles are distributed among the
member.
Regulation of
relations
Every association has its own ways
and means of regulating the relations of its members. Organization depends on
this element of regulation. They may assume written or unwritten forms.
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Association as Agency
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Durability etc.