Discuss Roscoe Pounds classification of social interest.

According to Roscoe Pound social interests are claims or demands thought of in terms of social life and generalized as claims of the social group. It is from the point of view of protecting the general interest of all members of the society. Social interests include- (i) Social interest in the general security: This includes general safety, peace and order, general health, security of acquisition and transaction. (ii) Social interest in the security of social institutions such as domestic, religious, political and economic institutions. (iii) Social interest in general morals like laws dealing with prostitution, gambling, bigamy, drunkenness. (iv) Social interest in the conservation of social resources like the natural and human resource. This social interest clashes to some extent with the individual interest in dealing with one's own property as on pleases. (v) Social interest in general progress. It has three aspects- economic, political and cultural. (vi) Social interest in individual life. It involves self-assertion, opportunity and conditions of life. Society is interested in individual life because individuals are its building blocks.