SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Standard Oil, Social Integration, Class Consciousness

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: menning

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Hunter-gatherer societies: demonstrates the strongest dependence on the environment of the various types of preindustrial societies. Recognize abilities to tame and breed animals: grow and cultivate food. Relocate in search for food: able to start permanent settlements. Understand what causes individuals to act in similar & predictable ways. Strength of ties that people have to their social groups. Key factor in social life: mechanical solidarity. Type of social order maintained by the collective consciousness of a culture: organic solidarity. Social order based around an acceptance of economic and social differences: anomie. Where society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness. Way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products are owned by individual people and companies rather than the government. The condition where the individual is isolated and divorced from his/her society, work o.