This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II The Soc1al Compos1t1on Resemblance in Component Societies A Component society is wholly or partly a genetic aggregation. The smaller component groups, including families, and, sometimes, villages, may be products of genetic aggregation only. Such large component societies as cities and commonwealths are products of genetic aggregation and congregation together. Tribal component societies insist on kinship. Civil component societies highly value a common blood, but do not demand it; instead, they require potential likeness. All component societies require mental and moral likeness; but, within the limits of a common morality, there may be no insistence upon any one point of mental or moral similarity, so long as the aggregate of resemblances remains large and varied. Subject to these conditions, the mental and moral differences among the members of a component society may be of any imaginable kind. Types of Social Composition Viewed from the standpoint of social composition, societies are of two great types: the Ethnic or Tribal, and the Civil or Demotic. Ethnic societies in turn are of two types, the metronymic and the patronymic. And, finally, any component society, ethnic or civil, metronymic or patronymic, may be endogamous or exogamous. Ethnic and Demotic Societies.--Ethnic societies are genetic aggregations. A real or fictitious blood kinship is their chief social bond. They are otherwise known as tribal societies, and include all communities of uncivilized races which maintain a tribal organization. Demotic societies, while in some degree products of genetic aggregation, are largely congregate associations. They are groups of people that are bound together by habitual intercourse, mutual interests, and cooperation, emphasizing their menta...