SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Proletariat, False Consciousness, Petite Bourgeoisie

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

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. More technologically complex societies support bigger populations, more affluence, and constant change. Defined by the issue of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation. A few societies persist today in africa, and malaysia. They depend on the family and on moving around (nomadic) Males and females are regarded as having the same economic importance. Industrialism: productions of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery. Trend away from traditional families and towards schooling and various rights (reduced inequality) Great change in occupational structure to service jobs. Information replaces objects as the centre of economy. Worldwide flow of information affects everyone on the globe. Social conflict: the struggle between segments of society over valued resources. Capitalists own factories and productive enterprises in pursuit of profits.