To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
A society is composed of men and their ideas. Cities, as well are composed of the same men. Yes, a general understanding of a society can be obtained by studying its major cities. This concept is not new to us - it's often said how children are good representatives of the values their respective families hold, and the ideals they follow. History has taught us the same thing. We have extrapolated the behavioral patterns of civilizations based on artifacts discovered in some of their cities. Of course, there will be exceptions to rules, but in general, this can be said to hold true.
However, the issue to address is - how does one decide what makes a city a "major" city? Some of the factors that could be considered are population, population density, per capita income, literacy rate. But if we go by these factors, we could get some really wrong results in some cases. For example, India still consists of more than 65-70 percent rural areas, and only at most 30-35 percent urban areas. There are four metropolitan cities in India, which have progressed really well and would easily be the cities that would qualify as major cities of India. However, if we were to judge the Indian society based on an examination of just these four cities, we would reach fallacious results. A majority of the Indian society still follows orthodox ideas, like the practice of dowry, female infanticide, and in general the Indian society is quite a male-dominated one. But this would not be evident from an examination of just the four "major" cities.
So, it's important the pick up a representative sample for a comprehensive understanding of a society. I would disagree with the use of the word "major" in the claim. Instead of picking the major cities of a society, it would be more beneficial for one to pick up all the different kinds of cities that a society consists of. This would give one a better idea of the lower and upper bounds, similarly a better idea of the variations that occur across a society.
Another factor that could be considered is the neighboring cities/areas of the society. Usually, a lot of cultural and even economical elements of a unit are drawn from surrounding areas, but those areas are not strictly/geographically included in that particular unit. A group of neighboring countries often share similar characteristics and values. This is for logical reasons like similarities in environmental conditions. Though, of course, owing to the ease of travel and migration in today's world, we also need to remember that there is a lot of diversity in even small regions.
All in all, yes, though not exhaustively, but we can still get a good idea of how a society functions by examining a representative sample of its cities.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 88, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'really', 'similarly', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'for example', 'in general', 'of course', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.205323193916 0.240241500013 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.12927756654 0.157235817809 82% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102661596958 0.0880659088768 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0570342205323 0.0497285424764 115% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0361216730038 0.0444667217837 81% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127376425856 0.12292977631 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0361216730038 0.0406280797675 89% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.96791138316 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0152091254753 0.030933414821 49% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00380228136882 0.0016655270985 228% => OK
Determiners: 0.121673003802 0.0997080785238 122% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0266159695817 0.0249443105267 107% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0171102661597 0.0148568991511 115% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2752.0 2732.02544248 101% => OK
No of words: 471.0 452.878318584 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.84288747346 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.326963906582 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.244161358811 0.280924506359 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.163481953291 0.200843997647 81% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0976645435244 0.132149295362 74% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96791138316 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 219.290929204 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496815286624 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 57.1755867991 55.4138127331 103% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6194690265 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.84 23.380412469 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5876135406 59.4972553346 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.08 141.124799967 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.84 23.380412469 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.52 0.674092028746 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 43.2561358811 51.4728631049 84% => OK
Elegance: 1.65811965812 1.64882698954 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395301463867 0.391690518653 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0990957716372 0.123202303941 80% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0821817061922 0.077325440228 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.488035943737 0.547984918172 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.17395941184 0.149214159877 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140357567939 0.161403998019 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790968248509 0.0892212321368 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.370276731328 0.385218514788 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.101185590109 0.0692045440612 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.256034943676 0.275328986314 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0870987385876 0.0653680567796 133% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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