Society Flashcards
Permanent union of men who are united by modes of behavior that are demanded by some common end, value, or interest
Society
What are the six stages or six kinds of society?
- Hunting society
- Pastoral society
- Horticultural society
- Agricultural society
- Industrial society
- Post-industrial society
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Exclusive on hunting wild animals, fishing, and gathering wild fruits, berries, nuts, and vegetables to support their diet
Hunting society
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Group of people who travel with a herd of domesticated animals which they rely on for food
Pastoral society
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Rely on simple tools to produce food
Horticultural society
What are the two characteristics of a horticultural society?
- Uses simple tools and not machinery or animals
- Shifting cultivation
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Economy based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland, seeing how much a nation’s total production is
Agricultural society
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Uses technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting large population with high capacity for division of labor
Industrial society
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- Economy of goods to add economy of services
- Increased the rate of innovation and invention of new technologies and explored applications
- replacement of manual laborers to technical labors
Post-industrial society
What are the three major historic societies?
- Pre-industrial society
- Industrial society
- Post-industrial society
It is the time before there are no machines or tools to help in tasks
Pre-industrial society
What are the two societies under pre-industrial society?
- Tribal society or hunter gatherer society
- Feudal society
- leader or chief
- primitive setting
- kinships and unity
Tribal society or hunter gather society
- military hierarchy
- ruler or lord offers mounted fighters
+ Kings
+ Nobles
+ Knights
+ Peasants
Feudal society
- Affected our activity in the 21st century
- changed our way of learning, working, and socializing
Digital society and the information age