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.
The definition of a society is often subjective. Many people tend to associate society with the variety it displays regarding the people who are a part of the society while some people even associate the concept of 'society' with the way in which majority of the people live and thrive. Therefore any attempts to understand the major characteristics of the society needs to take its constituents i.e. the people into account. The claim here makes a declaration that major cities are pivotal to determine prominent and most important characteristics of the society. While I agree that bustling, effervescent major cities do contribute, going so far as to say they are a must is an exaggeration.
One key point to remember is that bigger and major cities in any country or province often become a melting point of cultures owing to its obvious appeal to people with respect to job prospects, better standard of living and more opportunities. For e.g. New York city attracts several millions of people from within United States as well as from all over the globe. When such staggering numbers of people start to make the city their domiciles, society becomes a highly heterogeneous mixture of different races, ethnicity and cultures. The indigenous society would have radically diversified into a different society altogether. In such situations, major cities will not serve as proper representations to understand the important characteristics of the society.
The claim also discounts the crucial role the countryside and smaller towns play in shaping the society and driving its characteristics. Although brimming with a population of over 1 billion, a common man’s perception of a society in India is that of a peaceful, culturally diverse families tracing their roots to agriculture and other informal sector of work. Such characteristics cannot be discerned if we account major cities as the driving force of what forms a society. From a historical perspective, it has always been the roots that decide how a tree grows and flowers blossom. Thus I believe that we can only ascertain the important characteristics of a society by having a keen observation of people in general, not restricted or overly dependent on major cities.
But with the rapid urbanization that the world is witnessing now, there is a solid possibility that major cities could one day in future become a pivotal point to study the characteristics of a society. But this is mere conjecture. Although major cities account to a sizable chunk of a nation or state’s population, its cosmopolitan nature makes it only a considerable but not very significant force to study the society to which it belongs. Bangalore, known as India’s Silicon valley, has a shocking one fifth of the entire population of Karnataka, the state to which it belongs to. But due to a lot of people migrating to the city in search of overwhelming IT jobs, the percentage of local indigenous population is below 50%. Thus a study of Bangalore will not be indicative of the characteristics of the society in the region of Karnataka.
To conclude, characteristics of a society is influenced by a wide variety of factors like people, history, demographics, economy and so on. To study major cities will lead one a step closer towards identifying major characteristics of a society but it is not a highly significant premise, as major cities tend to detract the study of a society from its most important subjects, the indigenous people and their lifestyle.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, e.g., if, regarding, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, in general, as well as, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2949.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 576.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11979166667 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17118219035 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479166666667 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 963.0 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.0238137997 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.217391304 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0434782609 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86956521739 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => 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: 0.176945919672 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0560022937468 0.0831039109588 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489109937586 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114680773404 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0297066333212 0.0667264976115 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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