Part 3 Societies And Civilizations Flashcards
Courts or judges, military officers, police officers, school systems or teachers, and government agencies enforce formal controls
Formal social controls
Is a group of people who have organized themselves to work together to achieve common goals
Society
Performed by individuals, on their own and in an unofficial capacity
Informal social controls
Viewing one’s own culture or society as normal and oftentimes superior
Ethnocentrism
Judging other cultures or societies based on your own values and standards
Cultural relativism
Don’t raise there own food, but hunt wild animals and gather wild plants
Hunter-gatherer
A society where they grow their own food
Agricultural society
Moving place to place rather than staying in one place
Nomadic
Staying in one place and live there
Sendentary
Having enough food
Substance level
Having more food than what you need
Surplus food
A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes.
Civilization
What is the difference between producing food at a substance level and producing a surplus of food?
Substance level means having enough food
Surplus food means having more food that what you actually need
Why is agriculture the basis of all civilizations?
decisive factor that made it possible for human kind to advance was agriculture. Farming was a great discovery.
By domesticating animals and plants the people were able to have a surplus of food that give them more time to advance other things and because now they have enough food their population also grew
Make a list of the characteristics that may help identify a civilization.
1 existence of cities 2 control over the environment 3 specialized occupation 4 a social structure 5 an administration 6 infrastructure 7 written language
