1. Refers to people who interact in a defined territory and shared culture.
Chapter 4 Society

2. Gerhard Lenski: Society and Technology
Sociocultural evolution-societies change as they acquire new technology.
Hunting & Gathering-nomadic, kinship and egalitarian.
Horticulture-pastoralism/domestication of animals
Agrarian-plow animals, wheel, writing, money, social inequality

3. Lenski
Industrial-large machinery and mass production, traditional values erode, prosperity and health improve….more social inequality.
Post-Industrial-information based economy, technology soles and creates problems.

4. Marx Capitalism alienates workers From the act of working
From the products of work
From other workers
From human potential
REVOLUTION

5. Karl Marx: Society and Conflict
Social conflict over valued resources.
Capitalists---owners
Proletariat—workers
Profits
Economy is the infrastructure
Materialism
False Consciousness
Class conflict/class consciousness.

6. Max Weber The Rationality of Society
Ideal types---abstract statements
Tradition and Reality---rationality
Rationalization of Society
Is Capitalism Rational?
Protestantism and Capitalism

7. Growth of the Bureaucracy.
Weber
Rational Social Organization
Distinctive social institutions
Large Scale Organizations
Specialized Tasks
Personal Discipline
Awareness of Time
Technical Competence
Impersonality
Growth of the Bureaucracy.

8. Emile Durkheim Society and Function
Social fact is a pattern that is rooted in society rather than in the experience of individuals….shapes behavior feeling and thought.
Extends beyond its effect on individuals and society itself to function in a complex system
People build personalities by internalizing social facts

9. Durkheim Anomie Division of Labor Mechanical solidarity
Organic solidarity

10. Four Visions of Society
What holds society together?
How have societies changed?
Why do societies change?
Is Society Getting Better or worse?