last lesson Flashcards
These societies contained a strict hierarchical system of power based on land ownership and protection.
Feudal Society
The society relies on the domestication of animals as a source for survival.
Pastoral Society
The society relied on permanent tools for survival. Farmers learned to rotate the types of crops grown on their fields and to reuse waste products such as fertilizer, which led to better harvests and bigger surpluses of food.
Agricultural Society
They were similar to hunter-gatherers in that they largely depended on the environment for survival, but since they didn’t have to abandon their location to follow resources, they were able to start permanent settlements
Horticultural Societies
The members survive primarily by hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering edible plants. The majority of the member’s time is spent looking for and gathering food.
Earliest Society
The process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure that is qualitatively different from the ancestral form.
Sociocultural Evolution
Societies are based on the production of information and services. Since the economy of information societies is driven by knowledge and not material goods, power lies with those in charge of storing and distributing information.
Information Society
What made this period remarkable was the number of new inventions that influenced people’s daily lives. Within a generation, tasks that had until this point required months of labor became achievable in a matter of days.
Industrial Society
An agent that helps children learn expectations and build relationships. It can also support a child’s social, emotional, and physical development.
Community
It has the greatest impact on attitudes and behavior.
Family
A social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common. It helps to shape the attitudes and behavior of an individual.
Peer Group
This agent distributes news and entertainment, shaping public opinion and cultural norms.
Social Media
most fundamental unit of human society
primary group
a long and lasting group whose members have intimate, personal continuous face to face relationship
primary group
characterized by strong ties of love and affection
primary group
the do’s and dont’s of behavior are learned her in the families, gangs, cliques, play, groups, friendship groups.
primary group
groups with which the individual comes in contact later in life.
secondary group
characterized by impersonal, business-like, contractual, formal and casual relationship
secondary group
usually large in size, not very enduring and with limited relationship
secondary group
people need other people for the satisfaction of their complex needs
secondary group
a social unit in which individuals feel home and with which they identify
in-group
a social unit to which individuals do not belong due to difference in certain social categories and with which they do not identify
out-group
groups to which we consciously or unconsciously refer when we try to evaluate our own life situations and behavior but to which we do not necessarily belong
reference group or psychological group
it serves a comparison function
reference group or psychological group
it has a normative function
reference group of psychological group
groups which are organized to meet the special interest of the member
special interest group
group assigned to accomplish jobs which cannot be done by one person
task group
groups organized to support of influence social actions
influence or pressure groups
a social system in which most relationship is personal or traditional
gemainschaft
it is a community of intimate, private and exclusive living and familism
gemainschaft
culture is homogenous and traditional
gemainschaft
a social system in which most relationships are impersonal, formal, contractual or bagain
gesselschaft
relationship is individualistic, business-like, secondary and rationalizes
gesselschaft
culture is heterogenous and more advanced
gesselschaft
social organization, deliberately formed, and their purpose and objectives are explicity defined
formal groups
their goals are clearly stated and the division of labor is based on members ability or merit
formal groups
have a certain types of administrative structure called bureaucracy
formal groups
a hierarchical arrangement in large-scale formal organizations in which parts if the organization are ordered in the manner of a pyramid based on a division of function and authority
bureaucracy
formal, rationally organized social structure
bureaucracy
arises spontaneously out of the interactions of two or more persons
informal group
it is unplanned
informal group
has no explicit rules for membership, and does not have specific objectives to be attained
informal groups
it has the characteristic o primary groups and members are bound by emotions and sentiments
informal groups
