Feudalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Feudalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour."

Agrarian society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Agrarian society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "An agrarian society is a society that depends on agriculture as its primary means for support and sustenance. The society acknowledges other means of livelihood and work habits but stresses the importance of agriculture and farming, and was the most common form of socio-economic organization for most of recorded human history. This was a common way for Medieval European countries to gain wealth."

Pastoral society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pastoral society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "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."

Hunter-gatherer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hunter-gatherer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A hunter-gatherer or forager[1] society is one in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species. Hunter-gatherers are a type of nomad."

Post-industrial society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Post-industrial society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Post-industrial society is a concept in sociology describing a certain stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy."

Industrial society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Industrial society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In sociology, industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution, and replaced the agrarian societies of the Pre-modern, Pre-industrial age. Industrial societies are generally mass societies, and may be succeeded by an Information society. They are often contrasted to with the traditional societies."

Pre-industrial society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pre-industrial society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Pre-industrial society refers to specific social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850. It is followed by the industrial society"