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• Pre-Industrial Period: Hunting and gathering is the main form of food production in such societies, characterized by nomadic movement and limited population due to the need to adjust survival within places where needs can be found.
• Pastoral: Man learned how to take care of the animals they used to eat, tame them, and halted their nomadic form of life, leading to a decrease in stress and the ability to focus on research and development.
• Horticultural: People learned to grow fruits and vegetables and cleared some areas of the jungle to produce garden plots, leading to a flourishing population and the need for more complex education and the development of ancient empires.
• Agrarian: Systematically producing the supply needs in parallel to the demand of society and inter-society, leading to a rise in population and the need for more systematic food production.
• Feudal: Feudalism or feudal society was a form of society based on ownership of land, where land ownership became an instrument of power and wealth.
• Industrial Period: Traditional Society in sociology refers to a society characterized by an orientation to the past, not the future, with a predominant role for custom and habit, usually formed of a group of wealthy men, small clergy group or religious denomination or monarchy.
• Mass Society: Any society of the modern era possesses a mass culture and large-scale, impersonal social institutions, maintaining order under this form requires a bureaucracy.
• The basis of social classification in a mass society is your credentials and educational/experience background.
• The highest and weighted credentials will be used like having a license or being a CPA, managerial experiences, doctorate, etc.
• The counterpart of the Mass Society in Caste System is called the Open-Class System.
• During the age of enlightenment, people (mass) also used their preferred ideology informing their utopian style of society.
• For example, during the industrial age of the 19th century, a group of republican ideologists sought to overthrow the monarchical ideologist saying that the power must reside in the mandate of the people and not in one person called king or any royal members.
• Capitalists are bound in the history of libertarianism, while communists contradict them, saying a fair distribution of wealth must be given.
• Information Society - is a society where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation, and integration of information is a significant activity.
• In this type of society, the main drivers are information technology, communications, and digital platforms.
• When a person cannot voice his/her grievances against his/her friends or to the government, he/she can use the digital world of social media where he/she can hide his/her identity.
• Using trending messages and mass petitions to a certain influential group or personalities can overt his/her decision which is a form of lobbying.
• Other academies prefer the information society as the fourth estate of the republic, meaning, if the checks and balances of the three separate branches of the government failed, then the media will take place.
• For example, Juan dela Cruz was persecuted as a traitor to the government.
• The popular president may impose an order to Congress and the Supreme Court in favor of him in punishing Juan.
• But, because of the mass media, anyone can disseminate information and reveal the truth about Juan.
• “Solidarity is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes.
• Solidarity refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.
• Mechanical solidarity is the social integration of members of a society who have common values and beliefs.
• Organic solidarity is a social integration that arises out of the need of individuals for one another’s service.