SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: False Consciousness, Information Revolution, Class Consciousness

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

Document Summary

Society: people who interact in a deined territory and share a culture. Gerhard and jean lenski: society and technology: socio-cultural evoluion: changes that occur as a society gains new technology, the more technology a society has, the faster it changes, hunter and gatherer socieies. Use of simple tools to hunt animals and vegetaion. Women gather vegetaion as well as ish and small mammals. Men hunt: horicultural and pastoral socieies. Use of hand tools to raise crops. Once a society is capable of producing a material surplus, more resources than are needed to support the populaion. See one god as a creator: agrarian socieies. Agriculture: large-scale culivaion using plows harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources. Men = social dominance: industrial socieies. Industrialism: producion of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery. Workers lost close working relaionships, strong family ies and many tradiional values and beliefs. Provide schooling and greater poliical rights: post-industrial socieies.