SOCI 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Integration, Cambrian Explosion, Cultural Lag
9 Mar 2016
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Deadline for discussion forum: 2 weeks after friday. Demographic metabolism: you enter a social unit through birth (input) and eventually you die (output) There is a lot of demographic flux (change) because of this. Cohorts pass in and out of this social unit. To remain integrated in the face of this turbulence, society needs mechanisms for integration. You have formal membership, but these days the national system does not have hard boundaries like it did when ryder wrote his theory. Cambrian explosion: millions of years ago, mass extinction of old species and the emergence of new species. Cultural lag: older people have certain values that they hold until they die, and they hold society back because they are not adapting to the new emerging values. Static societies: unchanging social unit, e. g. , the amish. How do new cultures of younger cohorts get translated politically( ) When new cohorts become mature enough to take power.
