SOSC 1430 Lecture 9: Lecture November 9
9 Feb 2018
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Egalitarian, religion and ideology: religion primarily provides meaning to our relations with the supernatural or natural world, creates set of values to mediate/influence, subsistence and technology. Use of trade plow, the key technological innovation. Sedentary societies stayed in one place these practices the you to one place: division of labor. Surplus allows for specialization in particular activities: generally this allows for the greater efficiency in a given occupation. Aztec empire 100-200 000 people at first people at first contact in largest cities: social stratification. The existence within a society of two or more differentially ranked groups controlling unequal amounts of power, resources, privilege and prestige. Groups that relate to each other as different. Robinson: atrocities european societies committed: agrees it should be condemned but mistaken to give impression that societies pre-contact were paradise on earth: economy: Unequal access to resources: controlled or owned by the state in favour of elite, or owned by them directly.
