SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Spirit, Social Stratification
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Ethics: do not harm subjects, confidentiality/ anonymity. Culture: material culture: stuff, desks, clothes, etc. Necessary for our survival: normative or nonmaterial culture: System of learned behavior pattern that are characteristic of members of the society. It is how we do things and why we do them. How do we make decisions as society as a whole, how do we make them conform to values, positions in society, how we do things: three main systems of culture: The ecological sub-system (material culture): our tools and tech, how we extract food from the environment: classify different periods of human evolution (paleolithic, neolithic, mesolithic, bronze age, iron. Age etc. : most primitive - hunting + gathering. Affective bonds, everyone has a job, everyone works together since there are no tools available to complete the job. Low division of labor, and low stratification, more equality (gender wise too): horticultural society- simple hand tools, learned how to plant crops on a small scale, digging sticks, hoes.
