SOCIOLOGY

Assignment On TYPES OF HUMAN SOCIETY

Submitted by: Ali Mardan

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Ali Mardan
 Types of Societies
Societies across the world change based on
environment, interaction, and time.

Groups:
A set of people who

– interact on the basis of shared expectations

– who possess some degree of common identity.

– Largest groups we study are societies.

Subsistence Strategies:
 This is how sociologists tend to
classify societies.
 The way a society uses technology to
provide for the needs of its members.
Preindustrial Societies:
 Food production is the highest priority

Carried out through the use of human and animal labor.

Groups of preindustrial societies

 Hunting and gathering

 Pastoral

 Horticultural

 Agricultural

Hunting and Gathering Societies:

 Collect food daily by

– Hunting wild animals

– Collecting wild fruit and vegetables

 Everyone hunts and gathers

 Constantly move in search of food

– Usually live in temporary housing

 Huts

 Tepees

Pastoral Societies:
 Rely on domesticated herd animals for
food

 Sheep

 Cattle

 Lamb
  Less people needed to work for food in society

– Division of labor

 Some people become craft workers, mothers, etc.

Horticultural Societies:
 Grow food in farms

 Have high level of technology

 Use slash and burn tactics for

crops

– Wild vegetation is burned

– Ash turns into compost for

new farming.

 Large division of labor

– Strictly because of surplus of food

Industrial Societies:
 Instead of focusing on food, they focus on production of goods!

– How?

 Buy food from other

people!

 Produce goods using machines!

– Sell for much higher price.

 Causes urbanization

– Concentration of population
in urban areas
Postindustrial Societies:
 Economy focuses on providing information and services.

– In US, 73% of workforce do this.

 2% work in agriculture

 25% produce goods

 Place strong emphasis on

science and technology

 Society is stable