Society

Society

Before entering fully to define the word society that now occupies us it is fundamental that we investigate and discover the etymological origin of it. In particular, we can emphasize that it is found in Latin and more precisely in the term socetas .

Society is a term that describes a group of individuals marked by a culture in common, a certain folklore and shared criteria that condition their customs and lifestyle and that are related to each other within the framework of a community . Although the most developed societies are human (whose study is carried out by social sciences such as sociology and anthropology ), there are also animal societies (addressed from sociobiology or social ethology ).

In this last sense, therefore, we could say that animal societies are those that are formed in a totally natural way. So, in this way, an example of what we are pointing out would be the following: "The professor of Natural Sciences underscored that bees are one of the groups of living beings that live in society."

Human societies are constituted by populations where the inhabitants and their environment interrelate in a common context that gives them an identity and a sense of belonging. The concept also implies that the group shares ideological , economic and political ties . When analyzing a society, aspects such as its level of development , technological achievements and quality of life are taken into account .

The experts in the analysis of the companies establish a series of signs of identity or characteristics that state that they must be met in order for meetings or associations of groups to be considered as such.

Thus, among other things, they need to have a location in a common geographical area, be constituted in turn in different groups each with their own social function, must have a common culture, can be considered a population in its entirety ...

In the same way they establish that societies have a series of functions that can be classified in two. On the one hand there would be the generals and on the other hand the specific ones. Regarding the former, they would highlight the fact that they are the instruments through which human relationships are made possible or that they develop and establish a series of behavioral norms that are common to all their members.

Society has existed since man began to populate the planet, although its form of organization suffered variations throughout history. The society of prehistoric man was organized in a hierarchical way , where a leader (the strongest or wise of the whole) concentrated power. Beginning in ancient Greece , the absolutist tendency of power began to change, as the lower levels of society could reach certain important sectors in decision-making through democracy .

Only in 1789 , with the French Revolution , the social organization changed radically: since then, any person can rise to a higher level of society.

It is worth mentioning that the concept of society can also be understood from an economic and legal perspective , to define the union of at least two individuals who commit to making contributions and common efforts to develop a commercial activity and share the profits obtained.