SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anomie, Rationality, Social Fact
31 May 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
SOCIETY
• society
o interactions of people defined by a shared location and culture
• what accounts for social change and evolution?
o Lenskis
▪ Level of technology
▪ Sociocultural evolution
• Changes that occur as society gains new technology
o Societies simple in technology are slow to change
▪ 5 types of societies defined by culture
• hunting and gathering
• horticulture and pastoralism
o horticulture
▪ the use of hand tools to raise crops
o pastoralism
▪ the domestication of animals
• agrarian
• industrial
o industrialism- production of goods using advanced sources
of energy to drive large machinery
• post industrial
o technology that supports an information based economy
▪ limits of technology
• ifoatio is oig too uikly ad e do’t udestad the
consequences
o poverty
o individual opportunities at the cost of the community
o modern warfare
o physical environment is threatened
o Marx
▪ Type of social conflict
▪ Social conflict- the struggle between segments of society over valued
resources
▪ Two social classes
• Capitalists- call the shots
• Proletarians- provide labour for wages
o Engage in class conflict
▪ Differences between entire classes over the
distribution of wealth and power in society
• Ie uni profs have unions to ensure they are
getting paid reasonably for their services
even though the uni is trying to maximize
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