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What are the different types of society on the the successive development of human civilization? briefly sketch the characteristics of the primitive society.

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Answered by indum2605
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Explanation:

The major types of societies historically have been hunting-and-gathering, horticultural, pastoral, agricultural, industrial, and postindustrial. As societies developed and grew larger, they became more unequal in terms of gender and wealth and also more competitive and even warlike with other societies.

briefly sketch the characteristics of the primitive society.

“Primitive” is a term that is no longer used in modern anthropology. Different societies developed differently from each other due to differences in the resources that were available to them and how they used those resources to meet their basic needs, not from some inherent lack of X in the peoples of one society compared to the peoples of another.

An example of this would be like looking at a society that uses a bow and arrow to hunt their food and one that uses a gun. The former society might not have had access to the materials necessary to construct a working gun (e.g. the metals required to make the gun itself as well as its ammo, gunpowder, etc.), but they certainly had plenty of materials for constructing a working bow and arrow (e.g. wood, minerals, etc.). If the bow and arrow was consistently making meaningful contributions to the hunt, then that society would have had no reason to develop anything that could do the job better (in other words, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”). Meanwhile, the latter society might have had much easier access to the necessary materials to construct a gun, so once bows and arrows (or whatever piece of hunting equipment they used previously) stopped adequately meeting their needs, they had an avenue through which they could improve upon them.

So, yeah, if not spreading harmful stereotypes is up your alley, then you should probably avoid using the word “primitive” to describe them.

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