Sociology › Section D · Society and social interaction › Topic D.1
Types of societies
How people get their food and make their living shapes almost everything else about a society: how big it grows, whether it stays in one place, who holds power and how unequal life becomes. Sociologists use this link to classify societies from hunter-gatherer bands to today's information economies.
In this topic
- Food, tools and the shape of society
- Lenski: technology and societies
- Hunter-gatherer societies
- Pastoral and horticultural societies
- Agrarian societies
- Worked example: from plough to palace
- Industrial societies
- Postindustrial societies
- Not a ladder
- Worked example: classifying three societies
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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