SOCI 100 Chapter Notes -Information Revolution, Terrorism Acts, Elite
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Economics and politics are social institutions, a major sphere in social life, or societal subsystem, organized to meet human needs. Economy social institution that organizes a society"s production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Animals as plows development of agriculture. Resulted in surpluses not everyone had to produce food anymore. Resulted in specialized work making tools, raising animals, building dwellings. Towns sprang up linked by network of traders. Four factors: agricultural technology, specialized work, permanent settlements, trade. New sources of energy steam engine (james watt) heavy machinery. Centralization of work in factories moved work from home to factories. Manufacturing and mass production turn raw materials into finished products. Specialization repeated single task over and over, small individual contributions to finished product. Wage labour sold their labour to strangers instead of working for themselves. Production of countless new products raised standard of living. Post industrial economy productive system based on service work and high technology.
