SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Surplus, Social Complexity, Class Conflict

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

Evolutionary theory suggests biological changes (which are unplanned) are responses to the environment. There is a complex interplay between environmental and inherited. Most contemporary geneticists an sociologists agree on this interactive factors perspective. Overarching idea: change is the result internal stresses . Everything is related , we are in multiple relations of dependence. Change is constant , nothing is absolute or permanent. Change proceed from the quantitate to the qualitative . Change is the results of the unity and struggle of opposites . 12 000 years ago the homo sapiens became the only. Foraging (hunting/gathering) was the mode of production. Few settlements, as the need for food guided movement. People in small bands: co-operation (high) and warfare (low) No concept of ownership or private property. Occurred mostly, 10 000-7000 years ago, unevenly across the world (some 500 years ago) Ice ends 12 000 years ago; animals and plants flourish notably grains.