SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Productive Forces, Modern Warfare, Primitive Communism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

People who interact in a defined territory and share culture. How traditional and modern societies hang together. Sociocultural evolution: the changes that occur as a society gains. Societies range from simple to the technologically complex new technology. 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 use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather. A few societies persist today in africa and malaysia. They depend on the family and on moving around (nomadic) The sexes regarded as having the same economic importance. Horticulture: use of hand tools to raise crops; emerged 10-12 000. Today found throughout south america, africa, and asia. Leads to a division of labour and inequality. See god as directly involved in well-being of the world. Agriculture: large-scale cultivation using plows attached to animals or. Occurred in middle east 5000 years ago more powerful energy sources.