Discuss the Similarities and Differences Between Any Two Societies.

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Discuss the Similarities and Differences between any two societies. In the following essay I am going to discuss the similarities and differences between life on an Israeli Kibbutz in the 1950’s and life in modern Britain today, focusing on the different cultures of each society and looking at how each is organised. “The term ‘culture’ refers to the language, beliefs, values and norms, customs, dress, diet, roles, knowledge and skills, and all the other things that people learn that make up the ‘way of life of any society”(Browne 2008:31). At the start of the 1950’s there were approximately 214 kibbutzim with a population of 68,000. A Kibbutz is a small society of people who live together in a group, whereby each member is seen as equal and there is complete equal gender socialisation. The way the kibbutz was socially organised it was the norm for people not to own their own properties, it all belonged to the kibbutz so therefore was owned equally by all of the members. One person did not have higher status over another. A doctor for example had the same status as a cook in the kitchen. There was no gender or class division, men and women had equal roles and chance of social mobility was practically nil. The culture here was that most Kibbutzim were set out with a similar layout or plan and they were usually quite self contained. There was a Children’s House and play area for each age group, a Dining Hall, library, gym area, clinic or surgery, launderette and a grocery. Usually close to these there were cattle sheds and chicken huts and then not far away ponds and fields where they could fish for their food and work the land for crops (Rubenstein 2007 ). A kibbutz was a unit of production and very self sufficient It was the custom for the children living on a kibbutz to be raised away from their parents in the children’s area. They would all live in the

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