Economic emphasis is on providing services and information

Economic emphasis is on providing services and information

Society

 

·         a group of people living within defined territorial borders and sharing a common culture

 

hunting and gathering society

 

·         a society that survives by hunting animals and gathering edible plants

 

accompany

 

·         to go along with someone engaging in an activity

 

horticultural society

 

·         a society that survives primarily through using simple tools to grow plants

 

pastoral society

 

·         a society in which food is obtained primarily by raising and taking care of animals

 

domesticated

 

·         tamed

 

agricultural society

 

·         a society that uses plows and draft animals to grow food

 

industrial society

 

·         a society that depends on science and technology to produce basic goods and services

 

complex

 

·         complicated

 

mechanization

 

·         the process of replacing animal and human power with machine power

 

urbanization

 

·         the shifting of the population from farms and villages to large cities

 

gemeinschaft

 

·         a preindustrial society based on tradition, kinship, and close social ties

 

gesellschaft

 

·         an industrial society characterized by weak family ties, competition, and impersonal social relationships

 

social solidarity

 

·         the degree to which a society is unified

 

mechanical solidarity

 

·         a type of social unity achieved by people doing the same type of work and holding similar values

 

consensus

 

·         a broad agreement

 

organic solidarity

 

·         a type of social unity in which members' interdependence is based on specialized functions and statuses

 

postindustrial society

 

·         a society in which the economic emphasis is on providing services and information