Society

Introduction to Sociology Society

What is a society?
Society - a group of people who share a defined territory and a culture
What's the difference between a society and a nation?
Example: Iraq
What about a society and a culture?
The British in 1926 for political expediency Who created the borders of Iraq?

Types of Societies
You can think about societies in a lot of ways (e.g., political development, religious development, etc.), but one way is to think about the economic development of societies
What types of societies are there or have there been?
Hunting and Gathering
Pastoral and Horticultural
Agricultural
Industrial
Post-Industrial/Service

Hunting and Gathering
What is it? What is life like?
What about inequality?
Gender relations?
Any of these still exist?
Batek – Malaysia
Nukak – Columbia
Sentinelese – near India (helicopter incident after 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami)
Batek of Malaysia

Pastoral and Horticultural
Gender relations?
Bedouin – North Africa
Bedouin of Egypt

Agricultural
Gender relations?
Most developing countries, like Ghana
Farmers in Ghana

Industrial
Gender relations?
Most moderately developed countries, e.g., China
Workers in a Chinese factory.

Post-Industrial/Service
Gender relations?
Most highly developed countries, like the U.S.
Office work in the US service industry

The World, circa 2000 BCE

Why do we care?
Economic development is tied to inequality
Hunter/ Gatherer Pastoralist/ Horticulturalist Agricultural Industrial Post-Industrial Surplus Denser Populations Specialization Technology Inequality

Problems with Development
Early sociologists were studying society during the transition from agriculture to industry
They were also witnessing an age of exploration as the developing West was encountering parts of the world that were relatively undeveloped
Led to the following concerns:
Weber's Iron Cage of Bureaucracy
Durkheim's Anomie
Marx's Alienation

Society

by Ryan Cragun on Jan 26, 2010

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