What are the degrees in the development of society scientists distinguish. Presentation on the topic "historical stages of development of society"

Society before it acquired modern look passed through several stages (steps) in its development.

There are various scientific approaches to the development of society.

Modern sociologists have divided world history into three eras: pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial.

And modern anthropologists (scientists who study the formation and development of man) have divided all societies from ancient times to the present day into the following types: a society of hunters and gatherers, a gardening society, a pastoral society, an agricultural society, an industrial society. At the heart of this division is the way of obtaining a livelihood and forms of management.

Let us dwell in more detail on each of the types of societies.

Society of hunters and gatherers

The most ancient ways of obtaining food for man were hunting and gathering. Therefore, scientists call the society of hunters and gatherers the first step in human history.

It consisted of tribal communities - groups of 20 to 60 people related by blood. For food they needed a large number of food, so hunters and gatherers had to travel very long distances in search of prey and had no permanent habitat. It was replaced by temporary camps, where men, leaving for a long hunt, left women, children and the elderly.

Women were engaged in gathering. It was associated not only with the collection of edible plants. So, in coastal areas, people collected shellfish left after the sea tide. At one of the sites in North Africa, scientists have found millions of earth snail shells.

Thus, in ancient times, people did not produce everything necessary to satisfy their needs, but took what nature provided ready-made. When food supplies were exhausted, groups of people moved to other places, i.e. led a nomadic life.

It was the longest period in human history. Scientists call it the "childhood" of human society. Despite the fact that this period is far behind, researchers still find living evidence of history in various parts of our planet - tribes of nomadic hunters and gatherers. They can be found in Australia, Madagascar, South Asia, Malaysia, the Philippines and other islands along the Indian Ocean.

Additional reading
Modern hunters and gatherers
Aborigines are the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, inhabiting the continent for more than 40 thousand years. Until now, not all natives have switched to agriculture and cattle breeding. The Eskimos of Alaska and Canada are hunters.
The indigenous population of the states of California, Oregon, Washington is engaged in gathering. The grassy plains of Argentina, Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay are also home to hunter-gatherers. There are about 5 thousand such groups of peoples in the world, total strength about 300 million people. They usually live in wealthy natural resources regions. For this reason, they often find themselves at the center of numerous conflicts. In order to free up land for industrial development, indigenous peoples are resettled elsewhere or in cities.

Using additional literature, Internet resources, give examples of peoples who currently continue to live thanks to hunting and gathering.

Horticulture Society

When the population of mankind grew so much that hunting and gathering ceased to provide enough food, people moved on to the next stage of social development - gardening. People uprooted part of the forest, burned stumps, planted tubers of wild vegetables, which eventually turned into cultivated ones.

The wandering way of life was gradually replaced by a sedentary one. However, it has not yet become the main feature of life. Having used one plot of land for a vegetable garden and having exhausted the soil, people abandoned it and moved to a new one. And since the land was depleted quickly, the community lingered in one place for only a few years.

Societies of farmers and pastoralists

Horticulture was a transitional form of management: from obtaining ready-made natural products (wild plants), people switched to growing cultivated vegetables and cereals. Small gardens eventually gave way to vast fields, primitive wooden hoes - to a plow or plow (at first wooden, and later iron).

This is how agriculture was born. Plowing the land, sowing and harvesting are the main stages of this laborious occupation.

What stage of agricultural work is depicted in the painting by artist Konstantin Makovsky?

Residents of the Middle East (this is the territory of such modern states like Israel, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey) became the first farmers. They began to sow and cultivate the land, cultivated cereals from wild wheat.

Arable agriculture tied people to one place and contributed to the transition from a nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle. Population grew, life expectancy increased.

The hunters gradually realized that it was better not to immediately kill the caught lambs and kids, but to raise them in order to get milk and wool from them later. And you can get more meat from an adult animal than from a cub. So gradually people tamed wild animals, and cattle breeding arose.

The advent of agriculture and animal husbandry meant that people moved from appropriating what nature itself gave them to producing the necessary products.

An increasing number of people were freed from the need to work on the land. Some of them took up crafts. The division of labor led to the need to exchange the products of labor of farmers, pastoralists and artisans. This is how trade and merchants appeared.

There are cities, states, writing. Cities became the focus of trade, crafts, and cultural life.

From an agrarian society to an industrial one

Societies of gardeners, pastoralists and farmers are united by many scientists into one stage of development, which is called pre-industrial or agrarian society.

In an agrarian society, almost all people are engaged in agriculture. This society is also called traditional, because the life of people in it was closely connected with nature and was subject to customs and traditions. The agrarian society was dominated by manual labor. Over time, manual labor ceased to meet the needs of a growing population, so machines were invented.

With the help of machines, it was possible to produce much more important things for people and food.

More than 250 years ago, an agrarian society was replaced by an industrial society, which was no longer dominated by Agriculture and industry is industry. The formation of an industrial society was associated with the spread of large-scale machine production, the emergence social groups entrepreneurs and employees, the emergence of thousands of new professions, most of which were not known to the agrarian society. The main part of the industry is concentrated in cities that begin to play leading role.

The agrarian society was replaced by an industrial one, in which industry already predominated. How has the work of people changed with the invention of the steam engine, with the advent of machines?

Now more than half of the population is engaged in industrial labor, and a smaller part of it - in agriculture.

We advise you to remember!
An agrarian society is a type of society dominated by agriculture.
An industrial society is a type of society dominated by industry.
Post-industrial (information) society is a type of society in which knowledge and information play the main role.

post-industrial society

At the end of the 20th century, the most developed countries entered a post-industrial (information) society, which provides high level development of science and technology, education, services, information technologies(processes of processing, storage, control and transmission of information). Powerful technical means are directed to the transmission and dissemination of information - from radio stations and satellite television to mobile phones, computers and the Internet. In the information society, knowledge is most valued, and learning takes a lifetime.

In a post-industrial society, the vast majority of people work in the service sector. Even on farms and in industry, more people are involved in processing information than in cultivating the land and working on production lines. An example is the automotive industry, where more people are involved in sales, insurance, advertising, design, and safety than directly in car assembly.

What features of the post-industrial society do the photographs reflect?

Summing up
Human society has gone through several stages in its development: a society of hunters and gatherers, a gardening society, a pastoral society, an agricultural society, an industrial (industrial) society. Scientists also distinguish agrarian, industrial, post industrial society. Each stage is characterized by certain ways of obtaining means of subsistence, forms of management.

Basic terms and concepts
Types of societies, agrarian society, industrial society, post-industrial society.

Test your knowledge

1. What stages in the development of human society are distinguished by science?
2. Explain the meaning of the concepts: "agrarian society", "industrial society", "post-industrial society".
3. List distinctive features post-industrial society and briefly describe them.
4. See how activities and methods have changed economic activity people from one stage of development to another. What changes did they bring to people's lives?

Workshop

Human society has gone through several stages, stages in its development, before it acquired a modern look.

Scientists single out the stages of development of society, primarily by the method of obtaining means of subsistence and forms of management. From ancient times to the present day in the development of society, one can distinguish such
stages: a society of hunters and gatherers, a gardening society, a pastoral society, an agricultural society, an industrial (industrial) society.

2. Society of hunters and gatherers

The most ancient way of subsistence was hunting and gathering. Therefore, scientists call the society of hunters and gatherers the first step in human history.
It consisted of small groups of 20 to 60 people, related by blood and leading a nomadic lifestyle. They didn't have a permanent home. It was replaced by temporary shelters, where men erected parking lots, where, leaving for a long hunt, they left women, children and the elderly.

To feed the entire primitive group, a large amount of food was required, so the hunters had to travel very long distances.

Women were engaged in gathering. It was associated not only with the collection of edible plants. So, in coastal areas, people collected shellfish left after the sea tide. At one of the parking lots
in North Africa, scientists have discovered millions of earth snail shells. When the local snail colony was depleted, the people who lived here wandered, changing their campsites. They also ate some types of plants, including various herbs, fruits, nuts, and acorns.

In ancient times, people could not produce everything they needed to meet their needs. They took what nature provided ready-made. When food supplies were exhausted, groups of people migrated
to other places. Their routes depended on seasonal fruit ripening, fish spawning, and animal movement directions.

It was the longest period of human life. Scientists call it the "childhood" of human society.

Despite the fact that this period is far behind, so far, in various parts of the vast planet, researchers are discovering living evidence of history - primitive tribes of nomadic hunters.
and collectors. They can be found in Madagascar, South Asia, Malaysia, the Philippines and other islands along the Indian Ocean.

3. Horticulture Society

Hunting and gathering has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. Then humanity moved on to the next step - gardening. People uprooted part of the forest, burned stumps, dug holes with wooden hoes and planted tubers of wild vegetables in them, which eventually turned into cultivated ones.

The wandering way of life was gradually replaced by a sedentary one. However, it has not yet become the main feature of people's lives. Having used one plot of land for a vegetable garden and having exhausted the soil, people abandoned it and moved to a new one. And since the land was depleted quickly, the community lingered in one place for only a few years.

Horticulture was a transitional form of farming, from obtaining ready-made natural products (wild plants) people moved on to growing cultivated vegetables and cereals. Small vegetable gardens eventually gave way to vast fields, primitive wooden hoes - wooden, and later - an iron plow or plow.

With the increasing complexity of tools, labor productivity increased. One person could feed more people than before. Temporary camps turned into permanent settlements, surrounded by vegetable gardens and cattle pens. Communities united and created tribes.

4. Society of farmers and pastoralists

At the end of the Stone Age, the first global food crisis began. People had to master a new productive way of farming, in which more products are obtained from the same territory due to the improvement of labor tools and its organization. Farming was such a way of managing - plowing, sowing the land and harvesting from the same plot for many years.

The inhabitants of the Middle East became the first farmers and shepherds. They began to sow and cultivate the land, cultivated cereals from wild wheat.

People have a supply of food. The hunters stopped killing the captured lambs and goats, bringing them with them to the settlements. So gradually people tamed wild animals and moved from hunting to cattle breeding, from appropriating what nature itself gave them to producing the necessary products.

Arable agriculture tied people to one place and contributed to the transition from a nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle. Population grew, life expectancy increased. There were large agricultural
settlements that eventually turned into cities.

An increasing number of people were freed from the need to work on the land. Some of them took up handicrafts. The division of labor led to the need to exchange the products of labor of farmers, pastoralists and artisans. Cities became the focus of trade, crafts, and cultural life. Mankind has moved to a new stage of governance - the state.

With the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and the division of labor, society is stratified along property lines, cities, states, writing appear, a transition to civilization is taking place.

5. From an agrarian society to an industrial one

Societies of hunters and gatherers, gardeners, cattle breeders and farmers are united by many scientists into one stage of development, which is called an agrarian society. The agrarian society was dominated by agriculture. This society is also called traditional, because the life of people in it was closely connected with nature and was subject to customs and traditions.

More than 200 years ago, an agrarian society was replaced by an industrial society, which was no longer dominated by agriculture, but by industry - industry. The formation of an industrial society was associated with the spread of large-scale machine production, the emergence of social groups of entrepreneurs and hired workers.

Many countries of the modern world are classified as industrial society, including Russia. At the end of the 20th century, the most developed countries entered a post-industrial (information) society, which provides a high level of development of science and technology, education, services, information technologies (processes of processing, storage, control and transmission of information). These include countries such as the United States, Canada, Japan and the developed countries of Western Europe.

Studying history, we see how human society changes over time, different aspects public life. Scientists note that the closer to our time, the faster the development of society, the pace of social change increases. The development of society itself, its economy, culture, state, sphere of work and life is called social progress. The basis for the development of society is the improvement of tools and technology - technical progress - and the development of man himself, wisely using his achievements.

Question 1. What are the society? Why are societies different?

The most stable in modern sociology is the typology based on the allocation of traditional, industrial and post-industrial societies.

A traditional society is a society with an agrarian way of life, sedentary structures and a method of sociocultural regulation based on traditions. The behavior of individuals in it is strictly controlled, regulated by the customs and norms of traditional behavior, established social institutions among which the most important will be the family, the community. Attempts of any social transformations, innovations are rejected. It is characterized by low rates of development and production.

An industrial society is a type of organization of social life that combines the freedom and interests of the individual with general principles that govern them joint activities. It is characterized by flexibility social structures, social mobility, developed communication system.

The difference in societies is due to the gradual mental development individual and the progress of society as a whole.

Question 2. Using additional literature, Internet resources, give examples of peoples who currently continue to live thanks to hunting and gathering.

Some African tribes, groups of Indians, peoples of the far north.

Aborigines are the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, inhabiting the continent for more than 40 thousand years. Until now, not all natives have switched to agriculture and cattle breeding. The Eskimos of Alaska and Canada are hunters.

The indigenous population of the states of California, Oregon, Washington is engaged in gathering. The grassy plains of Argentina, Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay are also home to hunter-gatherers.

Question 3. The agrarian society was replaced by an industrial one, in which industry already predominated. How has the work of people changed with the invention of the steam engine, with the advent of machines?

Labor productivity rose sharply, cities and the urban population began to grow, and the standard of living of the population increased. The booming industry and service sector provided many new jobs. In industry, women's labor began to be massively used, and for the first time in history, many women began to work outside the home. In general, the standard of living of the population increased as a result of the industrial revolution. Improving nutrition, sanitation, quality and accessibility medical care led to a significant increase in life expectancy and a drop in mortality.

Question 4. What features of the post-industrial society do the photographs reflect?

General computerization, the creation and use of robots, attempts to create artificial intelligence.

Question 5. What are the stages in the development of human society distinguishes science?

Modern sociologists have divided world history into three eras: pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial.

And modern anthropologists (scientists who study the formation and development of man) have divided all societies from ancient times to the present day into the following types: a society of hunters and gatherers, a gardening society, a pastoral society, an agricultural society, an industrial society. At the heart of this division is the way of obtaining a livelihood and forms of management.

Question 6. Explain the meaning of the concepts: "agrarian society", "industrial society", "post-industrial society".

Agrarian society (agrarian economy) - the stage of socio-economic development, in which the greatest contribution to the cost wealth contributes to the cost of inputs produced in agriculture. Formed as a result of the Neolithic revolution.

Industrial society - a society formed in the process and as a result of industrialization, the development of machine production, the emergence of forms of labor organization adequate to it, the application of the achievements of scientific and technological progress. Characterized by massive mass production, mechanization and automation of labor, the development of the market for goods and services, the humanization of economic relations, the growing role of management, the formation of civil society.

Post-industrial society - a society whose economy is dominated by an innovative sector of the economy with a highly productive industry, knowledge industry, with a high share of high-quality and innovative services in GDP, with competition in all types of economic and other activities.

Question 7. List the distinctive features of the post-industrial society and briefly describe them.

The main distinguishing features of a post-industrial society from an industrial one are very high labor productivity, high quality life, the predominant sector of the innovative economy with high technology and business. And the high cost and productivity of high-quality national human capital, generating an excess of innovation that causes competition among themselves.

Question 8. Track how the occupations and methods of economic activity of people have changed from one stage of development to another. What changes did they bring to people's lives?

1) Society of hunters and gatherers. Since primitive people did not have a permanent home, men built parking lots, where, leaving for a long hunt, they left women, children and the elderly. Women were engaged in gathering.

2) Gardening Society. From gathering, people moved on to gardening - growing cultivated vegetables and cereals. Since the land was depleted quickly, the community in this area lingered for only a few years.

3) Society of farmers and pastoralists. Hunters and gatherers turned into farmers and pastoralists. Arable agriculture tied people to one place and contributed to the transition from a nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle.

4) From an agrarian society to an industrial one. Societies of hunters and gatherers, gardeners, farmers and cattle breeders are united into a single stage of development - an agrarian society. The life of people in it was closely connected with nature. More than 200 years ago, an agrarian society was replaced by an industrial society, which was no longer dominated by agriculture, but by industry.

Workshop

1. Read the text “Modern Hunters and Gatherers” on p. 88 and answer the questions: on what continents and in what countries do modern hunter-gatherers live? What are the reasons for their existence in modern world? What problems do people living according to the laws of a traditional society have in the 21st century?

Modern hunter-gatherers live in Australia, Northern and South America. They live, as a rule, in regions rich in natural resources. For this reason, they often find themselves at the center of numerous conflicts. In order to free up land for industrial development, indigenous peoples are resettled elsewhere or in cities.

2. Complete the sentences.

Ancient Greek society was agrarian because subsistence farming dominated.

The features of a post-industrial society are _ the predominance of information technology and general computerization.

3. What stages in the development of society have you already studied in history lessons? What historical periods do they belong to? Give examples.

Society of hunters and gatherers, gardening society - Ancient world, a society of pastoralists, an agricultural society - the Middle Ages.

4. Compare agrarian and industrial societies in the following positions: type of economy (appropriating, producing), lifestyle (sedentary, nomadic), the main occupation of the majority of the population (agriculture, industry), the presence of manual or machine labor. Fill the table.

Agrarian society - appropriating economy, nomadic lifestyle, agriculture, manual labor.

Industrial society - a productive economy, a settled way of life, industry, machine labor.

5*. What types of societies can be found in modern Russia? Prepare a computer presentation.

In modern Russia, there are features of both agrarian, and industrial, and post-industrial societies.