Socio-cultural Evolution Flashcards
Group of people involved with each other through persistent relations.
SOCIETY
Types of society
HUNTING AND GATHERING
HORTICULTURAL AND PASTORAL
AGRARIAN SOCIETY
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
POST INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
• oldest and most basic way of economic subsistence.
• men are tasked to hunt large animals like deer, moose, and other animals available.
• women are responsible for collection of vegetation, berries and small edible crops.
• relationship between men and women are equal
• considered as nomadic since they live in caves and pits or underground houses.
HUNTING AND GATHERING
• based on cultivating plants; they planted crops in a small garden for subsidence.
• produce a new simple forms of hands
• semi sedentary societies
• surplus of food
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
• domestication of animals
• semi sedimentary societies to keep their herd fed.
• in dry regions where raising crops was not possible
PASTORAL SOCIETY
Both societies are described as having an equal social relation because some members act as the ruling elite.
HORTICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SOCIETY
• Produce cultivation tools and develop farming domestication skill.
• settled permanently and improve the technology for farming
• led to an increase in social inequality because most of people in society act as a serf and slaves while few members became elite and act as owner of lands and other resources.
AGRARIAN SOCIETY
• This society start with industrial revolution around 1750.
• production began to shift from human and animal power to machine power
• created centralized workplaces, formal, educational, and complex social system
• A people left their farmlands and transferred to the urban areas to work and factories.
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
Societies that focus on the use and application of new information technology rather than factories.
POST INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
