Characteristics of human life in primitive society;
1, based on blood relationship, the population is small, and the economic life adopts egalitarian distribution.
2. Social control is maintained by tradition and parents, and there is no customary law and government power.
In a typical primitive society, there is no full-time leader. People of the same age and sex have the same social status. If there is a dispute, mediation will be conducted according to traditional norms, which is generally observed.
4. Some lifestyles are mainly hunting and gathering economy, while others are mainly fishing or simple natural agriculture. Tribal organization is a feature of some primitive societies, but not all primitive societies have this feature.
5. Primitive society is divided into primitive groups, clan communes, or three primitive groups and blood families.
Characteristics of life in slave society;
1. Under slavery, prisoners of war are no longer killed, but become slaves, saving a lot of labor. Laborers are human factors in productive forces. Retaining a large number of labor force may create more wealth for the society and be beneficial to the development of the whole social economy.
2. Slaves are regarded as the property of slave owners and can be bought and sold. Slave owners can force slaves to work, and labor activities must be dominated by slaves, without remuneration and personal freedom.
Slave owners have a large number of means of production and a large number of slaves, which are concentrated in their own manors and workshops, so it is possible to organize large-scale production, thus improving production efficiency and completing huge projects.
4. The main role of the earth became feudal lords, and slaves and freemen became serfs. The feudal mode of production dominated by exploitation of serfs gradually replaced the mode of production dominated by slave ownership.
5, a large number of slaves in mass production labor, simple division of labor and cooperation, so that the division of labor between different departments and within the same department is more and more detailed, workers' labor skills and proficiency are constantly improved, and labor productivity is also rapidly improved. This has promoted the further improvement of social productive forces.
Characteristics of life in feudal society:
1. In feudal society, the fundamental rule of the landlord class over other classes was feudal land ownership.
2. The forms of feudal land ownership were different, which were realized by means of contract leasing, paying land rent and hiring tenant farmers.
3. Economically, private land ownership is dominant.
4. A highly centralized autocratic system is implemented in political culture.
5. Culturally, Confucianism is the core.
6. In the social structure, it is a patriarchal hierarchical system combining clan power and political power.
Extended data:
A brief history of China's ancient social development.
primitive society
1. China is one of the cradles of human civilization, and the Chinese nation is the only one among the four ancient civilizations in the world that has not interrupted its cultural history.
2. The primitive society in China began with Yuanmou people 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, and ended with the establishment of Xia Dynasty in 265438+0 century BC, which experienced a long period.
3. According to archaeological excavations, fossils and cultural relics of primitive humans belonging to the ape-man stage have been found in many places in China. According to their physical development, China hominids went through three stages: Homo erectus, early Homo sapiens and late Homo sapiens.
(2) Slave society
1, the slave society in China began with the establishment of the Xia Dynasty in the 2nd1century BC and ended in the Spring and Autumn Period. * * * went through 1500~ 1600.
2. Shang and Zhou Dynasties are the earliest recorded historical period in China.
(3) feudal society
1, the feudal society in China is a very long period, which lasted for more than 2,300 years from the Warring States Period to the end of the Opium War in 1840.
2. The semi-colonial and semi-feudal society is the history of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society from the Opium War in 1840 to the eve of the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.
3. After the Opium War, western powers launched the Second Opium War, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese invasion of Beijing after the First Opium War in order to grab more rights and interests in China.
And used the status of the victorious country to sign various unequal treaties with the Qing government, plundered a lot of wealth, land and other rights and interests of China from the Qing government, and gradually reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
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