Society (ethnology)
By society , ethnology (ethnology) and anthropological sciences understand a larger group of people with differentiated social structures and organizational forms , who live in a delimitable area and whose members are connected to one another through a common language and extensive social and economic interrelationships. Depending on the author, this sometimes also includes shared values, beliefs, traditions and experiences.
Every society - for example tribal society , rank society , segmentary society , chieftainship , state - is made up of different communities - such as village community , descent group , horde of hunters , clan - in which all members know each other personally.
In contrast to the concept of society in sociology, the term society is not explicitly defined in anthropology and is rarely used, since the smaller units are usually the focus of interest. Larger, summarizing units are primarily referred to here as " cultures ". If the term society is used in addition in this context, it mostly only refers to the social aspect of the respective culture.
See also
- Society (sociology)
- Sociological multi-phase models for "traditional society"
- Gerhard Lenski's sociological development model
- Four-stage development model of the political organization of Elman Service
Web links
- Eckart Löhr: Of people and other animals. In: re-visions magazine. May 18, 2019 (Book Review What Holds Us Together. A Natural History of Society by the American biologist Mark Moffett 2019: How societies arise and function and what causes them to fall apart).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Walter Hirschberg (Ed.): Dictionary of Ethnology. New edition, 2nd edition. Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-02650-2 , pp. 150-151.
- ^ Dieter Haller : Dtv-Atlas Ethnologie. 2nd, completely revised and corrected edition. dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-03259-9 , p. 175.