Society and culture

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  • Culture and Society is a book published in 1958 by Welsh progressive writer Raymond Williams , exploring how the notion of culture developed in Great Britain, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
  • The Industrial Revolution, also known as the First Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of human economy towards more efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution,
  • The Industrial Revolution, also known as the First Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of human economy towards more efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution,
  • Bureaucracy is a body of non-elected governing officials or an administrative policy-making group.
  • Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
  • Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits.
  • Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively. It is the science of
    managing the resources of businesses, governments, and other organizations.
  • Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general.
  • Originality is the aspect of created or invented works that distinguish them from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or substantially derivative works.
  • Radicalization (or radicalization) is the process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo. The ideas of society at large shape the outcomes of radicalization. Radicalization can result in both violent and nonviolent action – academic literature focuses on radicalization into violent
    extremism (RVE) or radicalization leading to acts of terrorism.
  • Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter.
  • Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like honey, for food. Until approximately 12,000 years ago, all humans practiced hunting-gathering.
  • A pastoral society is a social group of pastoralists, whose way of life is based on pastoralism, and is typically nomadic. Daily life is centered upon the tending of herds or flocks.

    Pastoral societies are those that have a disproportionate subsistence emphasis on herding domesticated livestock
  • A horticultural industry is an organization devoted to the study and culture of cultivated plants. Such organizations may be local, regional, national, or international.
  • An agrarian society, or agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an agrarian society is by seeing how much of a nation's total production is in agriculture.
  • In sociology, industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery
    to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour.
  • The definition of post-industrial society is one that has transitioned from an economy of goods to an economy of services and has increased the rate of innovation and invention of new technologies and explored their applications. Many countries, including the United States, are in the post-industrial stage.
  • Nomadic herders roam in small tribal or extended family groups and have no home base. Nomads live in arid and semiarid parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe, and in the tundra regions of Asia and Europe. In Africa, nomads herd cattle, goats, sheep, and camels. In the
    tundra, they usually herd domesticated reindeer.