Society & Culture with Family Planning

Prof. Jerry Sorilla Ibabao, Aiescer Reggs E.

1. Discuss how a social system operates.

-The concept of society implies a number of characteristics. It has been viewed as
people living in interdependence. A social system expresses the bonds of relationship among its
members. If the relationship is significant the system is stable and. the insignificant relations are
found in unstable system. The significance of interaction can be judged from its frequency,
duration, focus and intensity. Society is universal among humans. For ages, it has performed
major adaptive functions that have increased the chances of human survival.

2. How does a society differ from a mere human group?

-A society is relatively large. The society can be regarded as the largest and most
inclusive social unit that exists. In fact, it integrates all the smaller social group units of which it
is composed - the family, neighborhood, communities, and others. It follows, therefore, that
society must be larger in comparison with it's surrounding population.

3. How would you differentiate capitalism from socialism?

-The main difference between capitalism and socialism is the extent of government
intervention in the economy.

A capitalist economic system is characterised by private ownership of assets and business. A

capitalist economy relies on free-markets to determine, price, incomes, wealth and distribution
of goods.

A socialist economic system is characterised by greater government intervention to re-allocate

resources in a more egalitarian way.

4. Explain: “A society sustains itself across generations.”

-This characteristic is related to the fact that societies recruit their members from within.
For any group of people to be a society, they must show their ability to endure and to produce
and sustain atleast several generations of members. For instance, the Ik in Uganda are on the
verge of extinction since they no longer have the ability to produce and sustain new members.
Conditions of hunger and extreme poverty have destroyed the fiber of their social structure.

5. Describe the food gathering and hunting societies giving emphasis on patterns of
relationships among people. How does the principle of division of labor apply to these societies?
-The earliest form of human society. It is when people survived by foraging for
vegetables and small game, fishing, hunting larger wild animals and collecting shellfish.
According to Richard Leakey, "hunting is the key characteristic in the development of human
social organization." In early times, our ancestors organize their hunting and gathering and they
started sharing between themselves and their primare relatives through hunting and gathering
that helped producd and increasingly abundant way of life. Early human society ofthen apply the
'division of labor', the Males were the hunters. The females were tasked with child care and
plant food gathering.