Part 1 Theoretical foundations: the human situation human societies as sociocultural systems the evolution of human societies types of human societies. Part 2 Pre-industrial societies: hunting and gathering societies horticultural societies agrarian societies some evolutionary bypaths and a brief review. Part 3 Industrial societies and industrializing societies: the Industrial Revolution industrial societies - technologies and economies, ideologies, polities and the mass media, social stratification, population and kinship revolutionary socialist societies industrializing societies retrospect and prospect.
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Martin et al. (1979) studied this question.