SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pastoralism, Social Inequality, Ideal Type
16 Oct 2016
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Society refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. Society: people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. The lenskis point to the importance of technology in shaping a society. They use the term social-cultural evolution to mean changes that occur as a society gains new technology. In hunting/gathering societies, men use simple tools to hunt animals and women gather vegetation. Have only a few dozen members and are nomadic. Consider men and women roughly equal in social importance. Horticulture and pastoral societies developed some 12,000 years ago as people began to use hand tools to raise crops and shifted to raising animals for food instead of hunting them. Are able to produce more food, so populations expand to hundreds. Agrarian societies developed 5000 years ago as the use of plows harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources enable large-scale cultivation. Show even greater specialization, with dozens of distinct occupations.
