SOCI 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sociocultural Evolution, Rationality, Anomie
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4. 5 summarize the contributions of the lenskis, marx, weber, and durkhiem to our understanding of social change. 4. 1 describe how technological development has shaped the history of human societies. The lenskis point to the importance of technology in shaping any society. They use the term socio-cultural evolution to mean changes that occur as a society gains new technology. In hunting/gathering societies, men use simple tools to hunt animals and women gather vegetation. Hunting/gathering societies: have only a few dozen members and are nomadic, are built atounf the family, consider men and women roughly equal in social importance. Horticultural and pastoral societies developed some 12000 years ago as people began to use hanf tools to raise crops and shifted to raisin animals for food instead of hunting them. Horticultural and pastoral societies: are able to produce more food, so populations expand to hundreds, show greater specialization of work, show increasing levels of social inequality.
