Human 101 What does it mean to be human? | Page 8

Rise of

Man and Society

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of society is “a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests”, simply put society is a group of people that share a culture. As we learned in the previous pages we know that as the man evolves, culture also evolves and along with it is the evolution of society. According to Coon (2005), the development of man parallels social development and that this parallelism is ongoing up until now and perhaps the future. This just proves on how the innovation and the changes of man whether biologically, culturally or socially, are all intertwined in its own complex way.