Talk:Outline of society

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Very thorough list. In Sociology, there is more than one way to type a society, and level of technology would be one of the least common typologies. Perhaps the most recognized typology would be by "modernity": pre-modern, modern, and postmodern. That said, there might still be some disagreement with this typology. Also, it would be good to add "social complexity" to "features" of societies. Meclee (talk) 14:28, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What type of thing is (a) society[edit]

I'm a newbie, looking for areas to get involved in, and society is one of my research interests. I'm concerned by that tiny little word, "a," in the part of the outline called "What type of thing is a society." In most of the outlines, the grammatical structure is "What type of thing is X," not "What type of thing is a/an X." That indefinite article makes a big difference with certain words, based simply on English usage, and "society" is one of those words. If we were to say, "What type of thing is society" we would be referring to society as a broad, abstract concept, not a specific instance, and the information we would want to include would be very different. I would prefer to see this say "What type of thing is society." Having a section of types of societies is a very different matter than explaining what type of thing society is as a matter of conceptual knowledge about the category.Mhbroder (talk) 03:36, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines[edit]

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:09, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]