Presentation on Society

Vardaan Pravesh Verma IMBA-4558/12

Society
Meaning of society:Individual is the basic component of society. The interaction of individuals with each other gives birth to group. The social groups interact with each other and develop relationships with each other, leads to a society.

Definition:-

Society is an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic or other purposes.

Types of Society

Static Society Folk or Traditional Society Modern Society Nomadic Society Sedentary Society Close society Primitive Society Rural Society Urban society Industrial Society Secular Society Sacred society

1.

Static Society A type of society that experiences little or no changes

from one generation to another. A simple and non-literate society is considered to be static society. These kinds of societies remained so far thousands of years.

2. Folk or Traditional Society This is an ideal society having abstract

model developed by Rovert Redfiled. A folk society is small, isolated, nonliterate and homogeneous with s strong sense of group solidarity. This has fewer social institutions, simple culture with old ways of life exists, old means of communication, slow social changes, and population is not much and homogeneous social life is found. There is no formal legal system.
industry urban life. It has a complex culture. Heterogeneous social life is found.

3.

Modern Society It is based on expansion of education, technology, and

4.

Nomadic Society Nomadic societies have no permanent place of

settlement. The people change their place with their luggage. They usually use camels, donkeys and other animals as a source of transportation. The cultural traditions have very forceful binding upon he members.

5. Sedentary Society It is opposite to nomadic, where people have

permanent settlement in rural and urban areas.

6. Close society It refers to a social class is based primary on family status rather than personal abilities, capabilities and achievements. It is an intermediate form between an open class and a caste society system. The chances of achieved statuses are very limited in the fields of occupation, educational, religious, economic and political institutions. The chances of social mobility are lesser as compared to an open class.
7.

Primitive Society One of the types of society refers to a non-literate

one. The cultural environment controls the entire human activities. The culture has simple technology, cultural homogeneity and isolation from larger cultural influences.

8.

Rural Society It is sparsely populated. The profession is mostly

agriculture, can be called as agricultural society. They live in farmstead settlement. They are dispersed their farms. It. consists of less than 5000 populations. There is informal social system. The people have homogeneity in profession, dress, language and customs of social life.
9.

Urban society Given by Robert Redfield Having a large heterogeneous

population, complex division of labor, impersonal social relations, relation are also casual, secondary, complex and formal. There is formal social control. There is diversity in profession, education, religion etc.

10. Industrial Society It refers to a system of economic and social

organism established by industrial revolution. Industrial society is characterized by the replacement of hand-made produce by the production of standardized automatic plants. Most of the people are engaged in nonagricultural occupations and professions in an industrial society. Interaction patterns are complex, secondary and formal. Economic activity is organized and there is a large scale manufacturing of goods.

11. Secular Society It is primarily a non-religious one in the sense

that there is no official (state) religion. The example is USSR to a great extent. The extreme type of secular one is supposed to be highly unstable. Pragmatism is the cultural ethos of such a society. It is a heterogeneous one.

12. Sacred society This type of society is primarily homogeneous,

integrated and stable. Human relationship and value systems are regarded as absolute, natural, rigid and fixed. Most of the societies of the "third" world countries could be placed under this category, although no society could come up to the ideal standard of such a sacred society. Religion is the cultural ethos of a sacred society. Societies at Makkah, Madina, and Vatican State etc. are the typical examples of sacred societies.

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