Knowledge Node Summary

Human societies typically change as the number of people within a society grows larger. Small bands of humans might live simple lives yet they still require a set of guiding rules or laws to allow even a small society to be stable. Larger societies or groups of humans typically create hierarchical structures which aim to manage the functioning of the society. Very large states create complex control and administrative systems.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'Basic types of human society' is considered to be very important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be moderately justifiable knowledge, and is mostly learned by study.
The learn time for this node given an understanding of the prerequisites, is about 1 month. The estimated learn time for the entire knowledge structure of this node is about 1.5 years.