SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Evolution, Class Conflict, Pastoralism

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

Document Summary

Society refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. Gerhard and jean lenski: society and technology. **socio-cultural evolution: changes that occur as a society gains new technology. Societies with simplest technology have little control over nature and can only support a small number of people. Societies with advanced technology can support many more people with a more affluent lifestyle. The more technology a society has, the faster it changes. The use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation. With little ability to control environment, hunters and gatherers only had time to look for animals to hunt and collect plants. Families tended to stay together in extended groups of just a few dozen people as the land could only support a certain amount of people. They would always have to be nomadic and move to find new resources.