The society is a system of social relationship. We may witness such relationship between father and son, employer and employee, teacher and student, merchant and customer, leader and follower or between friends and enemies, between children, etc, sociology must analyze and classify social relationship because they represent social fact and social data.

Social relationship represents the functional aspects of society. Analyzing and classifying social relationship is a difficult task. Social relationship involve reciprocal obligations. It refers to a pattern of interaction between these individuals thus social relationships may be studied by the kind or mode of interaction. It exhibit kinds of interaction are called social processes.

Social processes are the fundamental ways in which men interact and establish relationships. 

According to Maclver and Page:

”Social processes is the manner in which the relationship of the members of a group, once brought together, acquire a distinctive character”.

According to A. W. Green: 

"The social processes are merely the characteristics ways in which interaction occurs".

Types of Social processes: Social processes refers to the kinds or types of social interaction. Social interaction assumes different forms, Cooperation, competition, conflict, accommodation and assimilation are very necessary social interactions. These five types social interaction or social processes may be deeply analyzed here.