Main article: Classless society"Classless society" refers to a society in which no one is born into a social class. Distinctions of wealth, income, education, culture, or social network might arise an ...
Main article: Class conflictClass conflict, frequently referred to as "class warfare" or "class struggle," is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests ...
A person's socioeconomic class has wide-ranging effects. It may determine the schools they are able to attend, the jobs open to them, who they may marry, and their treatment by police and the courts.E ...
Definitions of social classes reflect a number of sociological perspectives, informed by anthropology, economics, psychology, and sociology. The major perspectives historically have been Marxism and S ...
Historically social class and behaviour was sometimes laid down in law. For example, permitted mode of dress in some times of places was strictly regulated, with sumptuous dressing only for the high r ...
Social class (or simply "class"), as in a class society, is a set of concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a ...
Characteristics Bands have a loose organization. Their power structure is often egalitarian and has informal leadership; the older members of the band generally are looked to for guidance and advice, ...
Main article: Paleo-IndiansSee also: Paleo-Indians period (Canada) and History of Mesoamerica (Paleo-Indian)Evidence suggests big-game hunter gatherers crossed the Bering Strait from Asia (Eurasia) in ...
In the early 1980s, a small but vocal segment of anthropologists and archaeologists attempted to demonstrate that contemporary groups usually identified as hunter-gatherers do not, in most cases, have ...
Hunter-gatherer societies manifest significant variability, depending on climate zone/life zone, available technology and societal structure.One way to divide hunter-gatherer groups is by their return ...
Further information: cultural universalHabitat and populationHunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively mobile, given their reliance on the ability of a given natural environment to provide suffi ...
One hypothesis is that the earliest humans lived primarily on scavenging, not actual hunting. Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic lived in mixed habitats, which allowed them to collect seafood, eggs ...
A hunter-gatherer or forager society is a nomadic society in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated s ...
The Cold War period was marked by rivalry between two superpowers, both of which considered themselves to be the most highly evolved cultures on the planet. The USSR painted itself as a socialist soci ...
Main article: multilineal evolutionComposite image of the Earth at night, created by NASA and NOAA. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. Eve ...
