Sociology 2266A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ultimate Power, Idle No More, Arab Spring
15 Nov 2016
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The social context of dispute settlement and the rise of law (chapter 2); 2266a. Mode of productions: the dominant form of social and technical organization of economic production in a society. Ideal types: theoretical construct abstracted from experience that brings together observed characteristics of real social relationships. Collective solidarity: state of social bonding that rests on similarity of beliefs and values, shared activities, and ties of kinship and cooperation among members of a community. Surplus: excess of production over the human and material resources used up in the process of production: the absence of surplus suppressed the emergence of economic stratification and any form of state-like political institution. Small scale societies had no distinct source of social power or authority independent of the collective will. Power was derived from hunting skill, sex, wisdom, or generosity. Dispute settlement in the absence of surplus and resource inequality. Women were sometimes at the root of disputes.
