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SOCIETY

This document describes four types of human societies: hunting and gathering societies, pastoral societies, horticultural societies, and agricultural societies. Hunting and gathering societies are small groups where people hunt animals and gather wild plants for food. They have few possessions and a fairly equal distribution of resources.

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SOCIETY

This document describes four types of human societies: hunting and gathering societies, pastoral societies, horticultural societies, and agricultural societies. Hunting and gathering societies are small groups where people hunt animals and gather wild plants for food. They have few possessions and a fairly equal distribution of resources.

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Hunting and

Gathering
These are small, simple societies in
which people hunt and gather
food. Because all people in these
societies have few possessions, the
societies are fairly egalitarian, and
the degree of inequality is very
Post-Industrial low.
Pastoral
These societies feature
information technology and Pastoral societies rely on the
service jobs. Higher education is domestication of animals as a
especially important in these resource for survival.
societies for economic success.

SOCIETY
Horticultural
Industrial
Horticultural societies formed in
areas where rainfall and other
Industrial societies feature factories conditions allowed them to grow
and machines. They are wealthier stable crops. They were similar to
than agricultural societies and have a hunter-gatherers in that they largely
greater sense of individualism and a depended on the environment for
somewhat lower degree of inequality survival, but since they didn’t have to
that still remains substantial. abandon their location to follow
resources, they were able to start
permanent settlements.

Agricultural
These societies grow great numbers
of crops, thanks to the use of plows,
oxen, and other devices. Compared
to horticultural and pastoral
societies, they are wealthier and
have a higher degree of conflict
and of inequality.

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