SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Industrial Revolution, Anomie, Ideal Type

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

Document Summary

Society: refers to people who interact in a defined territory & share a culture. Society is defined by the level of technology. Societies with simplest technology have little control over nature so they can support only small number of people. Inventing/adopting new technology sends change throughout a society. Socio-cultural evolution: changes that occur as a society gains new technology. 5 types of societies defined by their technology. Settlements of hundreds; connected through trading to form societies of thousands. Computers that of energy mechanized production support an information-based economy. Cities become common; contain only small proportion of population. Cities contain remains most of population concentrated in cities. Religious, political economic, information limited to age & & economic educational & processing and sex. inequality systems emerge. family systems. other service work. Note: technological advances have improved life however they cannot solve all problems such as establishing peace, ensuring justice, protecting the environment.