history of human civilization has always had a particular in each period of its existence, and in different regions of the planet.The modern world as we know it today, has become so not only because of technological innovations.It also contributed to the establishment and ongoing development of the society with its stagnation, sharp jumps and revolutions.In the economic and socio-political thought, there are many different approaches to the allocation of such levels of social development.However, today the development of a society divided into such generalized stages.
agrarian society
This society are peasants, of which it is composed almost entirely.It is working on the ground and growing vegetable and horticultural crops is the foundation of such a society.Commodity-monetary exchange takes place only in a rudimentary form.
industrial society
It appeared as a result of the industrial revolution and the replacement of manual labor by machine, which greatly changed the development of society and sotsalno economic relations in it.
postindustrial society
reached this stage for many countries in the Western world.It is also called the information, since it is the information in this period becomes a valuable factor.The main stages of development of the information society are not yet fully explored.
Marxist approach
more deep and full assessment, reflecting the stages of development of society, was the work of Karl Marx in the middle of the XIX century, as well as his followers later.The history of human society, Marx divided into five basic formations.
primitive communal formation
Company had no surplus of their work.All it consumed.
slaveholding formation
well-being of society as a whole was based on the forced labor of slaves.
Feudal formation
In such a society existed staircase hierarchy of suzerain and vassal of personal dependence.Grass-roots structure of the society provide its vital functions.
important point
This and previous formation correlate with the agrarian society.Marx is not especially singled out in his works, but later the researchers note that simultaneously with the medieval Europe was common in the East, the so-called politarny production method.It can not be called feudalism, as there was no social ladder, all the land is formally owned by the ruler, and all subjects were his slaves, deprived of any rights on their own.Hardly a medieval European kings could do so with their own feudal lords.
capitalist formation
There duress were not the violent means and economic levers.It appears in civil law, the new classes, the notion of commercial activity.Capitalism is due to the same reasons as the industrial society.
communist formation
Capitalism, according to Marxist theorists, reborn into imperialism, characterized by extreme exploitation of the working masses by a handful of merchants.As a result, he was born the concept of world revolution and the ordering of a more just society.However, further development of the society and the Cold War demonstrated that the building of communism, at least at this stage, it is impossible.And capitalism under the pressure of the last outgrown itself, forcing the oligarchs of the West to provide guarantees to improve the economic situation of grassroots strata in order to avoid the spread of leftist tendencies.
