Exam 4: Society

Industrial technology tends to weaken the family,reducing its importance as the center of social life.

Hunting and gathering societies generate a material surplus.

Marx called those who own and operate factories and other businesses in pursuit of profits

Looking over the long course of history,Durkheim claimed that societies change as _____ gives way to _____.

According to Max Weber,early Calvinists were

Agriculture differs from horticulture because it makes use of animal-drawn plows that can cultivate much more land.

Humans first planted gardens in which region of the world?

Gerhard Lenski claims that the development of more complex technology

Marx believed that proletarians could never overcome their false consciousness.

Durkheim explained that organic solidarity is based on

Which type of human society has existed only since about the year 1750?

Hunting and gathering societies generate a productive surplus.

Many people have marveled at the Great Wall in China and the Great Pyramids in Egypt.These monuments stand as evidence of the productive power of which type of society?

As the suffering of workers became worse,Marx predicted that they would

Gerhard Lenski claimed that ______has the greatest power to shape a society.

In the socialist society Marx hoped to see,which of the following would be true?

Karl Marx used a philosophical approach called _____,while Max Weber followed an approach called _____.

Agrarian societies have more similarities with one another than hunting and gathering societies.

Karl Marx considered capitalism to be _____,but Max Weber argued that capitalism was very _____.