SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Inequality

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Blair Sampson

Document Summary

Society- a comprehensive social grouping which includes all of the social institutions required to meet basic social needs. Gerhard lenski s typology of societies, based upon their mode of subsistence: hunting and gathering societies, pastoral societies, horticultural societies, agricultural societies. 5: post-industrialized industrialized societies hunting and gathering societies tend to have small populations survive through hunting small animals and gathering vegetation. Pastoral societies tend to have small populations survive through herding animals first appeared approximately 12,000 years ago typically nomadic, moving with their herds. Often systematic trading with other pastoral groups first kind of economy. Populations tend to be larger survive through the hoe cultivation of domesticated plants rely primarily on slash and burn technique for growing crops relatively permanent settlements since food surpluses exist, the specialization of roles expands. Agricultural societies tend to have very large populations survive through the cultivation of crops through the use of plows and draft animals.