Society Flashcards
What is society?
a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a larger social group sharing the same geographic or social territory, typically subject to the sanme political authority and dominant cultural expectations
Types of society?
- Hunting and Gathering societies
- Pastoral societies
- Horticultural socities
- Agricultural societies
- Industrial societies
- Post-Industrial societies
What is Hunting and Gathering socities?
societies that rely primarily or exclusively on hunting wild animals, fishing, and gathering wild fruits, berries, nuts, and vegetables to support their diet. Until human began to domestic plants and animals.
What is Pastoral societies?
a pastoral society is a social group of pastoralist, whose way of like is based on pastorlism, and is typicallly normadic.
What is Horticultural socities?
a horticultural society is an organization devoted to the study and cultural of culivated plants. Such organization may be local, regional, national, or international.
What is Agricultural socities?
an agricultural society, also know as agarian socitey, is a society that constructs soical order around a reliance upon farming. More than half the people living in the society make their living farmimg.
What is a Industrial socities?
in sociology industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capcity for division of labour
What is Post-Industrial societies?
a term used by soical theroist to describe the stage of ecnonmic devolpment that follows industrialization. The post-industrial soctiety emphasizes not the production of the goods, but services, when depend on intelligent designers and users of techology.
What society is Canada going into?
Post-Industrial society
