SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pearson Education, Primitive Communism, Sociocultural Evolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Scienfific method is about quantitiave data collection; statistics chapter 4. this tutorial will look a. The reading i slected was__ the theory that describes is ____ the reading had to do with it ___ the theory uses the best _____ People who interact in a defined territory and share culture. Society and technology: the more technology we have the quicker it will change. Sociocultural evolution: the changes that occur as a society gains new technology. Societies range from simple to the technologically complex. Societies simple in technology tend to remain small and change slowly. More technologically complex societies support bigger populations, more affluence, and constant change. Defined by the use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation. A few societies persist today in africa and malaysia. They depend on the family and on moving around (nomadic) The sexes regarded as having the same economic importance. Horticulture: use of hand tools to raise crops; emerged 10-12 000 years ago.