Hunting-Gathering society  Multiethnic society

(12,000 to 11,000 years ago)

 Earliest from of human
society
 Smallest size(family bands)
 Large division of labor
 Farming technology
roles (government,
religion, business, etc.)

 Most time spend looking for  Peasants are the

food largest class (50 % or
more of population)
 Very nomadic
 5.2 seconds on the societal
 Very low developed division time clock
of labor

 Longest lasting society(99%

of all societal time)-59
minutes and 51 seconds on
the societal time clock
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
(1750 to 1850 years ago)
Horticultural society
(9,500 & by about 5,000 years ago)
 Most developed form of
 Villages( less than a human society
hundred inhabitants to
several hundred)  Nation-states
 Mega populations
 Family clans and others
(metropolis)
 Domestication of plants and  Advanced technology in
animals many fields
 Semi-nomadic  Less than 10% of population
is involved in food
 Food production is a major production
social effort
 Very detailed division of
 Division of labor evolves labor (gender roles remain)
especially by gender
 Enormous capacity to
 Religious and military leader destroy other
roles societies
 3.6 seconds on the societal  Less than
time clock one second old on
the societal time
clock

AGRARIAN SOCIETY
(5000 to 6,000 years ago)
POST-INDUSTRIAL
(Late 20th Century)
 Developed large-scale
agriculture  an increase in
the amount of
 Large societies with large
information
cities
technology, often
 leading to an Information
Age

 information, knowledge, and

creativity are seen as the
new raw materials of the
economy