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Social Change ECOLOGY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION Cultures are first and foremost means of adapting to physical environments, and physical environments shape (enable and constrain) cultural development. Adaptation changes over time as humans alter their environments.

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Social ChangeECOLOGY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION

Cultures are first and foremost means of adapting to

physical environments, and physical environments shape

(enable and constrain) cultural development.

Adaptation changes over time as humans alter their

environments.

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Three important concepts: division of laborsurplus wealthstructural complexity

(division of labor and surplus wealth are reciprocally related).

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Hunting and Gathering Societies

-- (all human societies until about 10,000 years ago)

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Pastoral and Horticultural Societies - (emerged about 10-12,000 years ago).

The key feature of both is that for the first time surplus wealth became possible.

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Agricultural Societes

(emerged about 6,000 years ago,

"neolithic revolution").

Most of work force does agri work (peasants)

+ small “ruling class” (prop owners, warlords)

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Industrial Societies

- (began rapid development with industrial revolution in England in 1600's).

Transition from rural peasantry to urban industrial wage workers + “ruling class” of capitalists and landowners

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Post Industrial Societies

- (Since the end of World War II)

Transition from agri and indus workforce to “service” workforce +

“corporateocracy”

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What drives/causes these changes?

Environment?Demography?New “technologies”? (cult

diffusion)Expansion (war, conquest, etc.)?


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