SOC 1100 Lecture 4: Soc Chapter 4

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

Document Summary

Society: people who interact in a de ned territory and share culture. Horticulture: use of hand tools to raise crops; emerged 10-12 000 years ago. Agriculture: large-scale cultivation using lows attached to animals or more powerful energy sources: occurred in middle east 5000 years ago, larger population and food surpluses, greater specialization and inequality, men become dominant, societies expanded into empires. The limits of technology: poverty remains the plight of millions of people, individual opportunities at the cost of community, modern warfare could devastate the planet, the physical environment is threatened by pursuit of material prosperity. Social con ict: the struggle between segments of society over valued resources: society will struggle with con ict as we desire and aim for more. !4: as people develop technology to gain power over the world, the capitalist economy gains. Monday, september 28, 2015 more control over people. Tradition: values and beliefs passed from generation to generation.