SocioCultural evolution of society

Human capacity for population growth

According to Lenski, this has been a "profoundly destabilizing force throughout human history and may well be the ultimate source of most śocial and cultural change" (alphabetical)

irrigation metallurgy Numbers wheel writing

Agricultural societies initiated civilization as the invented the following: (alphabetical)

Hunting & Gathering Societies

At this level of sociocultural evolution, food production is relatively inefficient;

Industrialism

At this stage, societies begin to change quickly.

Industrialism

Demands for political participation also escalate.

Inequality

During the Agricultural Societies, this phenomenon becomes much more pronounced.

Religion

During the Agricultural Societies, what underlies the expanding power of the state?

Genes Individual Experience Signs Symbols

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski) (alphabetical)

Genes

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski): * In the first stage, information is passed by __________? (fill in the blank)

Logic

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski): . In the third stage, humans begin to develop _______? (fill in the blank)

Signs

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski): . In the third stage, humans begin to use _______? (fill in the blank)

Symbols

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski): In the fourth stage, humans created these.

language writing

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski): In the fourth stage, humans developed __________(fill in the blank) (alphabetical)

Individual Experience

Four Stages of Human Development (According to Lenski): In the second state, with the development of agriculture, humans are able to pass information through _________? (fill in the blank)

Less

Gerhard Lenski claims that members of a society are united by a shared culture, although cultural patterns become less diverse as a society gains __________ complex technology and information. (fill in the blank)

More

Gerhard Lenski claims that members of a society are united by a shared culture, although cultural patterns become more diverse as a society gains __________ complex technology and information. (fill in the blank)

advances in the history of communication

Gerhard Lenski's four stages of human development was based on?

Technology

Has the ability to shapes other cultural patterns.

Industrialism

In it's early stages, social inequality increases.

Postindustrialism

In this phase, industrial production declines while occupations that process information using computers expand.

Agricultural Societies

Inequality becomes much more pronounced.

Postindustrialism

It's emergence dramatically changes a society's occupational structure.

human populations

Lenski concludes that these are limited by their capability of food production

Agricultural Societies Horticultural & Pastoral Societies Hunting & Gathering Societies Industrial Societies Postindustrial Societies

Lenski's Five (5) Types of Societies: (alphabetical)

Horticultural & Pastoral Societies

Material surpluses develop, allowing some people to become full-time specialists in crafts, trade, or religion.

technologically complex

More __________ societies reveal striking cultural diversity. (fill in the blank)

Agricultural Societies

Occupational specialization increases, money emerges, and social life becomes more individualistic and impersonal.

Industrialism

Prosperity and health improve dramatically. Occupational specialization and cultural diversity increase.

Agricultural Societies

Religion underlies the expanding power of the state.

Horticultural & Pastoral Societies

Social inequality started

Simple

Societies __________ in technology tend to resemble one another (fill in the blank)

Hunting & Gathering Societies

Society is built on kinship, and specialization is minimal, centered chiefly around age and gender.

cultural evolution social evolution

SocioCultural Evolution is an umbrella term for theories of? (alphabetical)

SocioCultural Evolution

The changes that occur as a society gains new technology.

Industrialism

The family loses much of its importance and appears in many different forms.

Faster

The greater amount of technology a society has within its grasp, the __________ cultural change wil take place. (fill in the blank)

Industrialism

The growth of factories erodes many traditional values, beliefs, and customs.

Gerhard Lenski

The person who first developed the Sociocultural evolution

population production

The relationship between these two is the central thought of Gerhard Lenski (alphabetical)

Hunting & Gathering Societies

These societies are quite egalitarian and rarely wage war.

Gerhard Lenski

This person claims that members of a society are united by a shared culture, although cultural patterns become more diverse as a society gains more complex technology and information.

SocioCultural Evolution

This theory was first developed by Gerhard Lenski

Hunting & Gathering Societies

Until about twelve thousand years ago, all humans were hunter-gatherers.

Hunting & Gathering Societies

Use simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation.

Gerhard Lenski

an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and ecological evolutionary social theory.

Agricultural Societies

are based on agriculture

Postindustrialism

are based on technology that supports an information-based economy.

Agrarian societies

can build up enormous food surpluses and grow to an unprecedented size. (other word for Agricultural Societies)

Horticultural & Pastoral Societies

employ a technology based on using hand tools to raise crops.

Hunting & Gathering Societies

groups are small, scattered, and usually nomadic.

SocioCultural Evolution

is an umbrella term for theories of cultural evolution and social evolution, describing how cultures and societies have changed over time

environment population production

lt is the relationships between these things that drive SocioCultural evolution (alphabetical)

Agricultural Societies

societies initiated civilization as they invented irrigation, the wheel, writing, Numbers, and metallurgy

Industrialism

the production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery.

Agricultural Societies

the technology of large-scale cultivation using plows harnessed to animals or more powerful sources of energy was formed

Horticultural & Pastoral Societies

these strategies encourage much larger societies to emerge.

Industrialism

while poverty continues to be a serious problem, most people's standard of living rises.