The spheres of society are the totality of relationships of a stable nature between various social objects.
Each sphere of society includes social institutions, certain types of human activity (for example: religious, political or educational) and established relations between individuals.
The main areas of society. Types :
- social (nations, peoples, classes, age and gender groups and others);
- economic (productive relations and forces);
- political (parties, state, socio-political movements);
- spiritual (morality, religion, art, science and education).
Social sphere
The social sphere is the totality of relations, enterprises, industries and organizations related and determining the level and life of society and its welfare. This area primarily includes a range of services - culture, education, healthcare, physical education, social security, catering, passenger transport, public services, and communications.
The concept of "social sphere" has different meanings, but they are all interconnected. In sociology, this is the sphere of society, which includes various social communities and close ties between them. In political science and economics, it is a combination of industries, organizations and enterprises whose task is to improve the standard of living of society.
This area includes various social societies and relations between them. Occupying a certain position in society, a person enters into different communities.
Economic sphere
The economic sphere is the totality of relations between people, the emergence of which is due to the creation and movement of various material goods; it is an area of exchange, production, consumption and distribution of services and goods. The mode of production and distribution of material goods is the main factor that determines the specifics of economic relations.
The main task of this sphere of society is to solve such questions as: "what, how and for whom to produce?" and “how to harmonize consumption and production processes?”.
The structure of the economic sphere of society consists of:
- productive forces - labor (people), tools and objects of working life;
- production relations - this is the production of goods, their distribution, further exchange or consumption.
Political sphere
The political sphere is the relationship of people who are primarily associated directly with the authorities and are engaged in ensuring joint security. The following elements of the political sphere can be distinguished:
- political institutions and organizations - revolutionary movements, social groups, the presidency, parties, parliamentarism, citizenship and more;
- political communications - forms and communications of interaction between various participants in the political process, their relations;
- political norms - moral, political and legal norms, traditions and customs;
- ideology and political culture - ideas of a political nature, political psychology and culture.
Spiritual sphere
The spiritual sphere is an area of intangible and ideal formations, which include various values and ideas of religion, morality and art.
The structure of this sphere of society includes:
- morality is a system of ideals, moral norms, actions and evaluations;
- religion - various forms of worldview that are based on faith in the power of God;
- art - the spiritual life of man, artistic perception and development of the world;
- education - the process of training and education;
- law - the norms that the state supports.
All spheres of society are closely interconnected
Each sphere is characterized by independence, but at the same time, any of them is in close interaction with the rest. The boundaries between the spheres of society are transparent and blurred.