Sociology 1020 Lecture 5: Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies
22 Nov 2016
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Societies: collectives of interacting people who share a culture and, usually, a territory. In uence the kind of work we do. Impinge on the way social institutions operate. Affect the way we govern and the way we think of ourselves. They form boundaries in which what we deem as normal. We often overlook how society affects our daily functioning interactions. Foraging societies: societies in which people live by searching for wild plants and hunting wild animals. Such societies predominated until about 10,000 years ago. Inequality, the division of labour, productivity, and settlement size are very low in such societies. Horticultural societies: societies in which people domesticate plants and use simple hand tools to garden. Such societies rst emerged about 10,000 years ago. Pastoral societies: societies in which people domesticate cattle, camels, pigs, goals, sheep, horses and reindeer, they emerged 10,000 years ago.
