SOC 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Industrial Revolution, Petrochemical Industry, Pseudorandom Binary Sequence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3105
• Professor: Maaz Gardezi

Document Summary

Technological change & the enviro (gould reading: 3 distinct eras of modern tech development (l. mumford). Elements of nature we modified through human intervention: 1. Paleotechnic = use of wood as primary material, & use of moving water & wind as primary energy source; 2. Eotechnic = use of iron as primary material, & use of coal to generate steam as primary energy source; 3. neotechnic . They cleared natural ecosystem areas for farm fields. Pastures = cleared, ecosystems = transformed & species were being modified to serve human objectives: success of agriculture lead to labour surplus . Soils were fertile & water available = large quantities of food could be produced by few ppl. Led to increase in yields & decrease in demand for human labour, ex. now in usa, vast food surpluses = produced w/ small % of population engaged in primary food production. Creation of new classes from marx, proletariat (working class) & bourgeoisie (capitalist class).