Humans and other gregarious mammals can learn social behavior {social behavior, sociology} {sociology}. Social behavior depends more on rewards than punishments. Social interactions depend on affection, authority, collaboration, communication, esteem, exchange, power, and recognition.
topics
Sociology includes anthropology, paleontology, groups, societies, and societal institutions. Sociology studies human societies, human groups, group behaviors, society changes, group relations, social-organization types, education, technology, resources, population, and religion. Sociology studies groups relative to human needs.
technology and change
Technology is the most-important society-change cause. Change rate depends on attitudes toward change, discoveries and inventions, information, population size, contact with other societies, and natural, political, and economic environment changes. As technology advances, population size increases, settlements become more permanent, more goods become available, more services become available, more leisure time is available, and more labor division develops. These factors increase technology. Innovation depends on invention, discovery, existing-thing alteration, cultural diffusion, challenging but not harsh environments, curiosity, needs, self-interest, and boredom.
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