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Unit 2 Lecture 5: Types of Societies
Types of Human societies
Types:
- Hunting-Gathering societies
- Horticultural societies
- Agrarian societies
- Industrial societies
- Post-industrial societies
Hunting-Gathering society
- Earliest from of human society
- Smallest size(family bands)
- Most time spend looking for food
- Very nomadic
- Very low developed division of labor
- Longest lasting society(99% of all societal time)-59 minutes and 51 seconds on the societal time clock
Horticultural society
- Villages( less than a hundred inhabitants to several hundred)
- Family clans and others
- Domestication of plants and animals
- Semi-nomadic
- Food production is a major social effort
- Division of labor evolves especially by gender
- Religious and military leader roles
- 3.6 seconds on the societal time clock
Agrarian society
- Developed large-scale agriculture
- Large societies with large cities
- Multiethnic society
- Large division of labor
- Farming technology roles (government, religion, business, etc.)
- Peasants are the largest class (50 % or more of population)
- 5.2 seconds on the societal time clock
Industrial society
- Most developed form of human society
- Nation-states
- Mega populations (metropolis)
- Advanced technology in many fields
- Less than 10% of population is involved in food production
- Very detailed division of labor (gender roles remain)
- Enormous capacity to destroy other societies
- Less than one second old on the societal time clock
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