Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
OBJECTIVES
1. Define Society
2. Discuss Gerhard Lenski’s Theory of Sociocultural
Evolution
3. Examine how Karl Marx see society evolve due to
Conflict
4. Look into Max Weber’s Rationalization of Society
5. Discuss Society and Function as asserted by
Emile Durkheim
6. Compare and Contrast the Four Visions of Society
Society
Society refers to people who interact together and share a culture
PROPONENT THEORY
GERHARD AND JEAN Sociocultural Evolution
LENSKI Technology
KARL MARX Class Conflict
Capitalists (Bourgeoisie) vs
Proletariat (Working Class)
SOCIETY TECHNOLOGY*
1. HUNTING & Primitive tools, Spear, bow and arrow,
GATHERING stone knife
tradition to
rationality as the dominant mode
PRE-INDUSTRIAL of thought or idea
INDUSTRIAL-CAPITALIST
SOCIETIES OR MODERN SOCIETIES
TRADITIONAL, sentiments RATIONAL, deliberate, matter-of fact
and beliefs passed from calculation of the most efficient
generation to generation means to accomplish a particular
task
(likeness) (differences)