SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Stanley Milgram, Steam Engine, Social Inequality
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Groups people who interact with one another and who think of themselves as belonging together. 6. 1 societies and their transformation: society consists of people who share a culture and territory. Sets the stage for our life experiences. Sociological principle: the type of society that we live in is the fundamental reason for why we become who we are: hunting and gathering societies few social divisions. Shaman individual thought to be able to influence spiritual forces little inequality. Children have 50/50 chance of surviving to adulthood. Most leisure: pastoral and horticultural societies. Pastoral (herding) societies based on pasturing of animals. Horticultural (gardening) societies based on cultivation of plants by the use of hand tools. Domestication revolution domestication of animals and plants (first social revolution) Not every had to work for food: division of labor. Change from fewer to more possessions and from more to less equality: agricultural societies. People could engage in activities other than farming.
