To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
What defines the primary characteristics of a society? Some may argue that a society can be understood by analysing its major cities, but to truly encapsulate the actual nature of a society, one must also look at all of its components, major or minor.
The main qualities of a society can be characterised by its social, economical and cultural factors. These aspects tend to remain highly dynamic, particularly in major cities and urban areas. Take for example, the country of India. When its major cities such as Bangalore, Delhi or Mumbai are considered, the societal demographic would contain many similarities to more global, international cities. This is because of the large influence of Western civilisation and culture on the urban population of these areas, which consequently impact its people. To delineate this perspective, recent studies conducted have shown that when we consider the mindset of people regarding traditional customs and religion in major cities, they tend to have a broader outlook as compared to a rather myopic, rigid outlook of the people of rural and smaller areas. If only major cities are studied to understand a society, these nuances will be ignored, causing a rather inaccurate account to be drawn.
In areas having significant cultural history in particular, stark differences can be seen between the societal structure of major and minor cities and areas. Major cities, while containing traces of its history, do not provide an appropriate account of the society of an area as they are, ultimately, palimpsests of modernisation and urbanisation. The real information about such factors can be drawn by looking at smaller towns and villages which haven’t been a part of globalisation, enabling one to distinguish the unique factors of a society. When the city of Bangalore is compared to the village of Channapatna, which is roughly 100km from the city, differences can be noticed in the form of the people’s lifestyles, which tend to be more active and “9-5” in the city as compared to those of the villagers, whose primary occupations include toy-making and agriculture. The government in the city follows a formal, clear cut hierarchy whereas the village follows a “Panchayat”, or a group of elders who govern the village. The “Panchayat” form of government was indeed the actual form of governance in India before global influences, and such information could not have been obtained only if major cities were studied.
One could argue that studying major cities could provide the information about a society because most of the population tends to be concentrated in these areas, and hence the more relevant and applicable information can be obtained from this. However, this would provide a very general account of information without considering the subtleties and nuances that distinguish different societies from one another.
In conclusion, a society is an eclectic mixture of its people and features. A in-depth, comprehensive understanding of a society can hence be made only if all of its aspects, including major and minor cities and constituents, are analysed thoroughly.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, hence, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, whereas, while, for example, in conclusion, in particular, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2690.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23785793388 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 864.9 704.065955056 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.5832743981 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.578947368 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3157894737 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.21052631579 5.21951772744 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133169021194 0.243740707755 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485221218651 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0306063828338 0.0758088955206 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0876908113876 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.034375614926 0.0667264976115 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.1392134831 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.6 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 148.0 100.480337079 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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