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. => Human societies can be studied from diverse points of view; they are a matter of research for archaeologists, sociologists and politicians, among others. In very general terms, a society may be regarded as a voluntarily organized association of people with a common economic system, social structure, territory or purpose. Therefore, societies may range from the American Society of Physics (with a common purpose) to a whole nation (sharing territory and a socio-political system) or even the whole humanity. It is clear that within this spectrum of possibilities, the statement refers to those societies that occupy a considerable extension in territory. In this way, how deep can we know such a group of people by studying only its foremost cities? That possibility depends on one particular factor: how polarized is such a society. Consider as an example Colombia. As every third-world country, Colombia posses high indices of poorness, but also, a critical situation of violence since the 1960's, which some consider a civil war and others regard as terrorism. In opposition to the common beliefs of the first-world, nowadays the main cities of Colombia are considerably safe, while the regions suffering the consequences of this conflict lie in located small towns. In contrast, consider Brazil. Even though Brazil also presents severe problems of violence, this feature has different origins and distribution in its territory. The inequalities among different sectors of this society can be observed within a single city, with rich neighborhoods lying right next to the favelas. Both countries are shaped culturally, politically and economically by the hardships of violence and poverty, however, if you decide to analyze them by their main cities, you can notice those fundamental features easier on one than in the other. In that sense, a knowledge of any random society, totally unknown beforehand, can be developed in the statement's proposed way only with informal intentions. The seek of knowledge with academic purposes requires the consideration of the complexity of its structure and hence, the marginal groups of it.