Social Cooperation

[Pah]

The family is not the cornerstone of society. Niether the nuclear family nor the extended family can survive without the resources provided by society.

It is an evolution dead-end if the children of families do not reproduce and for this they need the health and well-being available to them within society. Food, education, housing, medical attention are essential to raising healthy, reproductive children. A family even an extended family of grandparents and aunts and uncles can not provide for all a family's needs.

Anthropologically speaking, the history of mankind shows a small, family oriented population until societies formed about 40,000 years ago. Barter was introduced that allowed sharing of resources when families congealed.

Barter is a form of social cooperation as families specialized in tasks that met the needs of other families.

 

[Sunstone]

The extended family is just one of at least seven or eight ways humans organize themselves into groups.

BTW, comparative physiological studies of primate brains indicate that humans evolved to live in groups of about 150 to 200 members.

 

[Pah]

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BTW, comparative physiological studies of primate brains indicate that humans evolved to live in groups of about 150 to 200 members.

I believe that was the critical number, although it could have been 400 when society was formed. Anthropology suggests that those smaller numbers were the precursor.

Hunter/gather groups were not as large (double digit) and had a very close to zero population growth. That was the beginning of family

 

[kadzbiz]

.....Barter is a form of social cooperation as families specialized in tasks that met the needs of other families.

The trouble with the barter system from a government point of view is that they can't tax it well enough. As far as I know.

 

[Willamena]

It is an evolution dead-end if the children of families do not reproduce...

So? ...

 

[Pah]

The trouble with the barter system from a government point of view is that they can't tax it well enough. As far as I know.

I wish that point had something to do with this thread

 

[Pah]

So? ...

http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/showpost.php?p=825415&postcount=1

 

[Cordoba]

The family is not the cornerstone of society. Niether the nuclear family nor the extended family can survive without the resources provided by society.

Both the family institution and society need each other

A healthy society cannot exist without healthy families, and families need the wider society to exchange benefits

In all cases, individuals can't survive on their own: humans are born weak and dependent as children, and they return to that state at an elderly age

The family (imo) is the best solution to cater for this basic human weakness

 

[kadzbiz]

I wish that point had something to do with this thread

Well, you brought it up, I didn't? :sarcastic