SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Modern Warfare, Class Conflict, False Consciousness

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

Document Summary

Society: people who interact in a defined territory and share culture. Max weber: the power of ideas shapes society. Emile durkheim: how traditional and modern societies hang together. Societies simple in technology tend to remain small and change slowly. More technologically complex societies support bigger populations, more affluence and constant change. Hunter/gatherer societies: defined by the use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation. Sexes have same economic importance, social equality, ravaged by forces of nature. Horticultural and pastoral societies: couldn"t support a much larger population, division of labor and inequality. Agrarian societies: large-scale cultivation, larger population, specialization, men become dominant. *industrial societies: industrialism: production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery. Post industrialism: technology that supports an information-based economy. Key concept: social conflict: the struggle between segments of society over valued resources (authority, property, wealth) Two social classes: capitalists: own factories, pursuit of profits.