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In anthropology and archaeology, a complex society is a social formation that is described as a formative or developed state. The main parts of complexity are: *the extent of a division of labour in which members of society are more or less permanently ''specialized'' in particular activities and depend on others for goods and services, within a system regulated by custom and laws. *the population size of a human community; the larger the population, the more complex and variegated the co-existence of people tends to become. ==Concept== Social complexity in this sense thus refers typically to political complexity, specifically the presence of a hierarchy in the form of a ruling elite supported by bureaucrats, with associated paraphernalia such as administrative buildings and elite residences in urban or proto-urban population centres. Complex societies under this definition are also agricultural to provide the surplus required to support a social (non-food producing) elite. Explaining the origins of these types of social formations, which appear in many areas of the world, is one of the tasks of archaeology (see, e.g., (History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies )). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「complex society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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