1. Social structure, stratification and 1 Social processes in society. 2. Social change and social order in rural and urban society. 3. Environment and society. 4. Introducing Western sociologists. 5. Indian S sociologists. In this book we seek to understand this relationship better by exploring the concepts of social structure, social stratification and social processes. We try and understand how groups and individuals are located within the social structure. And how they Act and initiate social processes. How do they cooperate, compete and conflict? Why do they cooperate, compete and conflict differently in different kinds of society? Proceeding with the basic questioning approach of sociology dealt with in the earlier book we do not see these processes as natural and unchanging. But as socially constituted. We do not accept a naturalist explanation that may suggest that human beings are ‘naturally’ competitive or ‘naturally’ prone to conflict.