Hunting and gathering society

Hunting and gathering society

social institution

 

·         the organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs

 

society

 

·         people who share a culture and a territory

 

hunting and gathering society

 

·         a human group that depends on hunting and gathering for its survival

 

pastoral society

 

·         a society based on the pasturing of animals

 

horticultural society

 

·         a society based on cultivating plants by the use of hand tools

 

agricultural society

 

·         a society based on large-scale agriculture

 

Industrial Revolution

 

·         the third social revolution, occurring when machines powered by fuels replaced most animal and human power

 

industrial society

 

·         a society based on the harnessing of machines powered by fuels

 

postindustrial society

 

·         a society based on information, services, and high technology, rather than on raw material and manufacturing

 

biotech society

 

·         a society whose economy increasingly centers on the application of genetics--human genetic for medicine, and plant and animal genetics for the production of food and materials

 

social integration

 

·         the degree to which members of a group or society are united by shared norms, values, behaviors, and other social bonds; also known as social cohesion

 

mechanical solidarity

 

·         Durkheim's term for the unity (a shared consciousness) that people feel as a result of performing the same or similar tasks

 

division of labor

 

·         the splitting of a group's or a society's task into specialties

 

organic solidarity; Durkheim

 

·         ?'s term for the interdependence that results from the division of labor; people depending on others to fulfill their jobs (?; ?)