SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wage Labour, Consumerism, Pastoralism
11 Apr 2018
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Social arrangements that organize the production, distribution, and consumption of goods. How a group chooses to exploit their environment has tremendous influence on bother society as a whole and personal relationships. This has varied over time and space. Lightly exploit food resources for immediate consumption. All healthy people participated in acquiring food. Domestication of various species of animals and plants. Lenski (1966) simple and complex horticultural societies. Simple techniques of turning the soil, slash and burn. People make their living by tending herds of large animals. Few agrarian societies evolving in to great empires. Life revolved largely around the farming-family centered. Use of non-animate sources of energy to produce goods. Harnessing new source of power, centralization of work, mass production, emergence of the factory, specialization, wage labour. Explosive working conditions in these early factories. Reorganization of society resulting from the growth of information technology, global consumerism, integrated financial markets, and cultural pluralism.
