Question

concept of simple society

Answer 1

Here "very many" is a gradual concept. A million is always "very many". But in some simple societies, for instance a medieval rural society, "very many" could be as little as 50. The above concept of society is fully applicable to those having a million members and only partially applicable (according to the type of society), to societies with lower amounts of members. Specifically, a governing subsociety and several levels of subsocieties, exist only if there are very many members.Some examples of societies are: states, provinces, municipalities, industrial enterprises, political parties, religious organizations and clubs. Also a wolf pack, a heard of reindeer, being composed of intelligent systems, as we have defined them, are societies. Ant hills and beehives are only societies if we find members (ants or bees) that are intelligent systems, i.e., that can learn.

You may ask: "Why just this definition of society and not another". On one hand this concept permits working with a number of interesting aspects of a human society and also we can model it on a computer. There is another aspect. In physics we use as fundamental concepts those of force, distance and time. It has been shown that all physical formula can also be written with the fundamental concepts of mass, distance and velocity. All formulas, including those of electromagnetism can be rewritten with these as fundamental concepts and give the same valid results. It seems that it is not of so great an importance what fundamental concepts we use, but it is of the highest importance that we define them well and that they form a coherent system, so that we can treat them mathematically. Also, as has been shown, different definitions permit us to treat different aspects of societies. If, in the future, we note that we cannot treat some important aspect with the present concept of society then we should modify this concept.

Answer 2

Yes..the... real concept ...of society is fully applicable to those having a million... members ....and only partially.. applicable (according to the type of society), to... societies with lower... amounts of members...that's wHy it is..