Exam 17: Social Structure in Global Perspective

In the most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society,members are engaged primarily in food production.They increase their crop yields through such innovations as the plow.This type of society is called a(n)

Ferdinand Tönnies would view hunting-and-gathering societies as examples of a

Émile Durkheim argued that mechanical solidarity is characteristic of the interdependence of people in a complex society.

A society whose economic system is engaged in the processing and control of information is called a(n)

The sociocultural evolutionary approach emphasizes a developmental perspective and pictures different types of social structures coexisting within the same society.

In a small town in the Midwest,all of the children attend the same school and most of the community members attend the same church.Everyone in this community knows everyone else,and they have shared numerous experiences with one another.This community would be characterized by Ferdinand Tönnies with the term