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Social Change In Pre-Modern Societies

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Pre-modern societies were harsh, beastly and short-lived. Life expectancy was between forty and fifty years of age. People believed that they were born to work and then die, and nothing else. Pre-modern societies were typically based on the cultivation of natural resources. Society was relying highly on the natural world surrounding it, people lived off the land, they were hunters and gatherers. The division of labour was much easier in pre-modern society as work was not highly specialised. Social class distinctions did not exist during this period, people shared the same sense of values. At this time it was religious officials who held the positions of power, they were seen as the leaders of the people as God was the main entity at this time. Social change according to Giner and Robertson ( 1972: 264) can be defined as the difference between the early and late states of a given area of social reality, or what happens between these two moments in time. Social change is expressed as the aftermath of the changes in the growth of natural resources- plagues and wars have led to the wipe out of many crops and the severe decline in population in certain societies. It is also due to the changes in laws and politics and the development of technology, which has significantly helped with the growth and development of certain societies in parts of the world. A considerable source for the social change is the attitudes of people, people are far more educated now and are …show more content…

There are many different definitions of what exactly a society is, but I think it was Fichter who said it best, from the point of view of the persons who constitute it, a society is the largest number of human beings who interact to satisfy their social needs and who share a common culture. (1971:

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