SOC 808 Study Guide - Final Guide: Food Systems, Consumerism, Sugar Beet

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Monika Korzun

Document Summary

Building homes - making clothes - people started to specialize in other industries: stratification (hierarchy - different things are valued more in community) * ex. Warriors are valued the most in the community - they became the decision making for the surplus. This changed how we eat food and how we get it. People lived during the tropic time - more access to food. Tropic areas - small community - main priority - to gather food and survive. Surplus -->; an excess of production or supply over demand. Weather, bugs: buying food from stores and markets was new during this revolution , consumerism: where commodity acquisition is a primary and perpetual source of meaning and purpose, mechanization, chemicalization and biological manipulations minimized risks in agriculture. Out of all water we use in the states for all industry . Screwing the environment to make food that is not being eaten.