Socially Organised

This idea is as true of animal / insect societies as it is of human societies.

For example:

Some animal and insect societies involve very complex social structures (an ant hill, for example, involves a hugely complex organisation of many thousands of insects into an efficiently functioning social unit).

Human societies also involve complex social structures. A society such as our own, for example, involves the organisation of some 60 million people.

Underlying both these forms of social organisation are rules that provide a structure for organisation and behaviour, although sociologists argue that the basic organising structures / frameworks are radically different in animal and human societies:

In animal societies, for example, behaviour is structured around the framework of instinct.

In human societies, on the other hand, behaviour is structured around the framework of culture.

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