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SOCIETY

An organized population consisting of people with a common culture, shared geography and who think of themselves as one people. SOCIETY. FUNCTIONAL PRE-CONDITIONS FOR A SOCIETY TO EXIST. COMMON CULTURE COMMON GEOGRAPHY COMMON GOVT FUNCTIONING INSTITUTIONS ORDERLY SOCIAL RELATIONS

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SOCIETY

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  1. An organized population consisting of people with a common culture, shared geography and who think of themselves as one people. SOCIETY

  2. FUNCTIONAL PRE-CONDITIONS FOR A SOCIETY TO EXIST • COMMON CULTURE • COMMON GEOGRAPHY • COMMON GOVT • FUNCTIONING INSTITUTIONS • ORDERLY SOCIAL RELATIONS • SENSE OF A COMMON IDENTITY • A SHARED LANGUAGE

  3. DURKHEIM MODEL • SOCIETIES ARE HELD TOGETHER BY TWO QUALITIES: • MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY—Consists of shared beliefs, values and common ideas amongst the people serves to bind them together • ORGANIC SOLIDARITY__ Refers to the cohesiveness resulting from interdependence of people on one another. Example: students depend on teachers, who depend on administrators , who depend on politicians. It is this functional interdependence we have on one another which holds society together.

  4. EVOLUTION OF SOCIETIES • HUNTING/GATHERING • PASTORAL • HORTICULTURAL • AGRICULTURAL • INDUSTRIAL • POST INDUSTRIAL

  5. TONNIES CLASSIFICATION • GEMEINSCHAFT • GESELLESCHAFT • WHAT TYPE ARE THE FOLLOWING? TRIBAL SOCIETIES SMALL TOWN AMERICA BIG CITY AMERICA AMISH COMMUNITIES IN PA.

  6. THOUGHT QUESTIONS • CAN A MULTI CULTURAL SOCIETY SURVIVE? • WHAT MIGHT BE SOME ISSUES WITH MULTICULTURALISM IN AMERICA? • CAN YOU THINK OF ANY TRULY MULTI CULTURAL SOCIETIES?

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