Homogeneous society characterized by common norms and values

Homogeneous society characterized by common norms and values

 

Agricultural Society

 

·         A society based on farming and land ownership

 

Behavior Patterns

 

·         Expected ways in which people conduct themselves in society

 

Conformity

 

·         Adherence and obedience to social norms and rules

 

Culture

 

·         The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, values, material objects, and behavior that defines the group and the society to which individuals belong

 

Gemeinschaft

 

·         A small, homogeneous society characterized by common norms and values

 

 Gesellschaft

·         A large, complex society bound together by self-interest and impersonal relationships

 

Hunting and Gathering Society

 

·         A society focused on obtaining food by hunting animals and gathering plants

 

Industrial Revolution

 

·         The movement of society away from farming to the production of goods

 

Industrial Society

 

·         A society economically based on the production of goods by machinery

 

Information Revolution

·         The movement of society away from an industrial economy to one based on information and services.

 

Pastoral/Horticultural Society

 

·         A society based on breeding cattle and harvesting crops

 

People-group

 

·         A collection of individuals, joined through identity and function, that has a culture and resides within a society

 

Physical Materials of Culture

 

·         The substantive objects found in a culture (e.g., cotton, computers, wood, steel).

 

Post-Industrial Society

 

·         A society based on advanced technology and services rather than tangible products

 

Social Inequality

 

·         Refers to differences in power and access to goods and resources in a society

 

Social Networks

 

·         Ways in which individuals and groups are connected in a society

 

Social Structure

 

·         Pattern in which individuals interact in an orderly fashion in a society

 

Society

 

·         A large group of people who live in a geographical territory, separate and largely independent of other groups, and carry on a unified culture

 

Values

 

·         Ideas and beliefs that are highly esteemed in a culture