Outline 1.4 Flashcards
This includes groups of individuals and institutions
Society
Categories of society
Band, tribe, chiefdom, state (incl. empire)
Societies historically “shape” technologies - they design, produce, and use various forms of material artifacts for a range of
Cultural purposes
As societies become more technically complex, their technologies become increasingly intertwined with the daily lives of individuals (through patterns of production and use)
Technological determinism
This is when individuals experience a sense of increasing dependence on their material means to maintain their way of life
Technologies seem to be constraining society - dictating social change.
Technological determinism
An early distinguishing trait of early hominids was
Their development of technical artifacts (or use of tools)
Large societies require central organization (states) for what four major reasons?
Conflict resolution
Communal decision making
Economic transfers
High population densities
Prehistory time period
2.6 mya - 10,000 BCE
Tool-using society time period
70,000 ya - 10,000 BCE
Craft-based society time period
10,000 BCE - 1800 CE
Industrial system based society time period
1800 CE - 2000 CE
Technological society time period
1800 CE - 2000 CE
Technological society time period
2000 CE - present
2.6 mya - 10,000 BCE
Prehistory
70,000 ya - 10,000 BCE
Tool-using society
