Types of Society Class 8 Questions and Answers KSEEB 8th Social Science
I. Fill in the blanks.
Question 1.
The hunting societies use _______________ tools for hunting.
Answer:
stone
Question 2.
_______________ is used to fill the land in agricultural society.
Answer:
‘Plough’
Question 3.
The distribution of skilled work is called as _______________ .
Answer:
Division of Labour
Question 4.
In Industrial societies, there is an increase in transport and _______________ .
Answer:
communication
Question 5.
The mechanised production takes place in _______________ society.
Answer:
Industrial
II. Answer the following:
Question 1.
What are the different types of societies?
Answer:
The following are the different types of societies.
- Hunting and Gathering society.
- Pastoral society.
- Agricultural society or rural society.
- Urban society.
- Industrial society.
- Information society.
Question 2.
What is a Pastroal society?
Answer:
The process of engaging in animal husbandry of cattle like sheep, goat, cow nd buffalo for general sustenance is called pastoral society.
It is a second stage in the evolution of human societies.
Question 3.
How does agriculture gain importance in society?
Answer:
In Agricultural society people began to leave hunting, nomadic life and settled in a place and engaged in agriculture. Thus agrarian society began to form and people began to engage in agriculture related works, plough driven by animals were used for agriculture.
Question 4.
What is an Industiral society?
Answer:
The Industrial society: utilising, scientific production ways and searching for energy sources is the main feature of this society. Majority of the population depends on Industrial work for their sustenance.
Question 5.
Information Society is growing fast. Prove.
Answer:
As the information society is needed for all, it has assumed more importance in this society people take help from information technologies to solve their problems and challenges. Knowledge is getting exchanged over new tools. Computers have become the information storage hubs.
III. Answer the following in four five lines.
Question 1.
Explain the features of hunting and gathering societies.
Answer:
Hunting and gathering society is the first stage of human evolution. It is a simple and ancient society. It is very small in size. The human being were engaged in fishing hunting animals and gathering foods plants and trees. The role and status in the society were fixed based on age and sex. There was no desire of accumulation of wealth. Hunting was done using stone tools.
Question 2.
Explain the features of pastroal Societies.
Answer:
Pastoral society is the second stage in the evolution of human societies. The process of engaging in animals husbandry of cattle like sheep, goat, cow, and buffalo for general sustenance is called pastrol society, cattle herding was the main occupation. The society was under the leadership of single leader.
Question 3.
Explain the relationship between land and agriculture.
Answer:
Agriculture is the major economic activity that takes place in agricultural society. The structure of agricultural society can be in relation to the land holdings, relationship with land and agricultural activity.
Tajmani system, Zamindari system, Ryotwari stystem, Mahalwari system. Tenancy system etc. were the types land holding system It reflect on agriculture activity directly.
Question 4.
List out the features of Industrial society.
Answer:
Utilising scientific production ways and searching for energy sources is the feature of this society.
Population depends on Industrial work for their sustenance.
In an Industrialised society, the production depends on the automatic technology the production is in large quantity. This depends on division of labour. The production proces became mechanised.
Question 5.
Write as note on Information Society.
Answer:
As the information society is needed for all, it has assumed more importance. In this society, people take help from information technologies to solve their problems and challenges. The information society helps to attain education and do commerce and business needed for the future. Mass media are best examples for storage of information. Now a days computers have become the information storage hubs.
Additional Questions and Answers
Question 1.
______________ is the most prominent subject for sociology.
Answer:
Society
Question 2.
The word society originates from the Greek word ______________ .
Answer:
Socius
Question 3.
“Communities community” said by ______________ .
Answer:
H.M. Johnson.
Question 4.
______________ means getting together of people to work towards a common goal.
Answer:
Co-operation
Question 5.
______________ decides the aims and patterns of human beings.
Answer:
Society
Question 6.
______________ is not uniform.
Answer:
Society
Question 7.
______________ society is the first stage of human evolution.
Answer:
Hunting and gathering
Question 8.
The process of engaging in animal husbandry of cattle for general sustenance is called ______________ society.
Answer:
pastrol
Question 9.
Movement of people from one place to another place in search of food, grassland, business is called as ______________ life.
Answer:
nomadic
Question 10.
______________ is called as a land of villages and agriculture.
Answer:
India
Question 11.
______________ opines that, the human civilization evolved in the cradel of villages.
Answer:
Bogarodus
Question 12.
A group of families residing in a place is called villages said by ______________ .
Answer:
S.C. Dube
Question 13.
Majority of the people live in ______________.
Answer:
rural India
Question 14.
In Karnataka the be neighbourhood is identified as ______________ .
Answer:
‘Kerfi or ‘oni’
Question 15.
Zamindar is a ______________ words.
Answer:
Persian
Answer the following Questions
Question 1.
What is Jajmani system?
Answer:
Jajmani system was a basic nature of socio – economic life of rural society.
Question 2.
Define Zamindari system?
Answer:
Zamindar is a Persian word. It means one who has lands.
Question 3.
Explain Ryotwari system?
Answer:
In order to save farmers from the exploitation the Court of Directions introduced Ryotwari system in 1817.
Question 4.
Define Mahalwari system?
Answer:
Under this system, based on the yieid of estate or mahal, tax was fixed on the owners of the such mahal.
Question 5.
Explain Tenancy system?
Answer:
The farmers who has secured the rights to till land is called a tenant. There are two types of tenants, permanent and temporary tenants.
Question 6.
Explain Urban society :
Answer:
Urban society are very complex in their structures. Urban societies have dense population involving in varieties of jobs and works often urban societies are pushed to the brink of severe problems due to over crowding of population. Still, the urban societies are ahvays welcomed. The urban societies have become modem society. Urban Life and civilised life complement each other.
Question 7.
What are the features of urban society?
Answer:
The following are features of carban societies. Industry based economy, professional works, transport and communication, increase in migration.