SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rationality, False Consciousness, Pastoralism

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

Document Summary

**society: people who interact in a defined territory and share culture. Gerhard and jean lenski: society and technology, sociocultural evolution. The changes that occur as a society gains new technology. Societies range from simple to the technologically complex. Societies simple in technology tend to remain small and change slowly: however, many simple societies such as hunter gatherers are going extinct. More technologically advanced support bigger populations, more affluence, and constant change. Karl marx: social conflict: the struggle between segments of society over valued resources, in industrial societies, two social classes: Capitalists: own factories and productive enterprises in pursuit of profits. Marx rejected this kind of thinking: conflict in history. Over history, new productive forces undermined old orders and new social classes gained ascendance. In the ancient world warfare was frequent and produced masters and slaves. The feudal world saw lords and serfs. The productive forces of industry created the bourgeoisie and the workers: capitalism and class conflict.