LESSON 3 Flashcards
• They use advanced sources of energy to run large machinery which led to industrialization
• Innovations in transportation led people to travel, work in factories and live in cities.
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
represents the social structures and organizations of the people who share those beliefs and practices.
society
refers to “that complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society.” (E.B. Tylor 1920 [1871]).
Culture
• Rely on products obtained through the domestication and breeding of animals for transportation and food.
• These are common in areas where crops cannot be supported and only have to move when the land in which the animals graze is no longer usable.
PASTORAL SOCIETIES
represents the beliefs, practices, artifacts of a group
culture
• These societies rely on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and plants in order to survive. Horticultural societies, however, are characterized by cultivating vegetation with simple tools and without large, permanent farms.
• They are often forced to relocate when the resources of the land are depleted or when the water supplies decrease.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
describes a group of people who share a common territory and a culture.
society
Sociologists refer to a definable region – as small as a neighborhood to as large as the global regional context.
territory
• THEY RELY ON THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE CROPS IN LARGE AREAS, INCLUDING WHEAT, RICE, AND CORN.
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
• Their economy is based on services and technology, not production.
• The economy is dependent on tangible goods, people must pursue greater education and the new communications technology allows work to be performed from a variety of locations.
POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
•The earliest forms of society.
•These are small and generally with less than 50 members and is nomadic.
•The members survive primarily by hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering edible plants
HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES