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Society

What is meant by society?
People express their nature by creating and re-creating an organization which guides and controls their behavior in various ways. This organization is called society, which liberates and limits the activities of men, sets up standards for them to follow and maintain: whatever the imperfection and tyrannies it has shown in history in human history; it is a necessary condition of every fulfillment of life. Society is a system of usage and procedures, of authority and mutual aid, of many groupings and divisions, of controls of human behavior and liberties. It is the web of social relationships, and it is always changing.

Why societies were organized?
Human societies are often organized according to their primary means of subsistence: social scientists identify hunter-gatherer societies, nomadic pastoral societies, horticulturalist or simple farming societies, and intensive agricultural societies, also called civilizations. Some consider Industrial and Post-Industrial societies to be separate from traditional agricultural societies.
Societies can also be organized according to their political structure: in order of increasing size and complexity, there are band societies, tribes, chiefdoms, and state societies.

The physical condition of social relationship
Society is a changing pattern of social relationships. To understand what a social relationship is we have to contrast the social relationship with physical relationship. For exa...

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