Meaning of co-operation of goal-oriented and organized: Co-operation generally means working together for a common goal (or objective). We have generally noticed the behaviour of people in our village or neighbourhood, when a community festival like Christmas, Durga-Puja, Janamasthami, or Ram Lila or Krishna-Lila organization or Guru-Purab celebration, or Eid etc. Some volunteers move from home to home, from shop to shop to collect donations (or funds) for the members who belong to their own community, neighbourhood or village. All these donations are pooled together and the members of the celebration group decide the manner in which these should be spent.
Celebration of such festivals is not possible unless the members cooperate with one another at every level.
Decoration of the festival place, and sacred observance of the rituals, etc. are examples of goal-oriented and organized cooperation.
Such cooperation is a regular feature, which takes place every year. The volunteers and organisers might change from year to year but the observance of the activity continues.
Goal-oriented cooperation can be seen among organized groups or political parties for certain purposes. These groups or parties otherwise compete with one another, come together and cooperate with each other for a specific purpose. For example, some political- parties shake hands and accept a minimum common programme to form a front and capture power or form government. This type of cooperation may be for a short time span.
Cooperation is a process which is highly essential for the maintenance of social order. Therefore, co-operation is considered an associative social process. It is a universal phenomenon. If we are to live as members of society, we cannot do without cooperation.
Co-operation is a goal-oriented and conscious form of social interaction. It involves two elements:
(i) Common end. and
(ii) organized effort.
All the individual members have a common end, i.e. celebration of the festival. But they can do it only when all members cooperate with one another in an organized manner. This is an example of cooperation at the level: for example, family, community and nation.
