SOC 1100 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Notes

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

Document Summary

Society: people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. Socio-cultural evolution: changes that occur as a society gains new technology. The use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation. Depend on the family to do many things, get and distribute foods, protect its members, teach the children, spend most of time getting next meal, usually have a spiritual leader. Horticulture: the use of hand tools to raise crops. Material surplus: more resources than are needed to support the population. Agriculture: large scale cultivation using plows harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources. Industrialism: the production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery. Changes family because it reduces the initial importance as the centre of social life. Post industrialism: refer to technology that supports an information based economy. Production relies on computers and other electronics that create, process, store and apply information.