Question

list and describe the stagies that sociaties go through in Lenskis socialcultural evolution.

For Soc class

Answer 1

Gerhard Lenski studied the social changes of cultural evolution he describes that societies evolve and bring the change during the course of evolution and it is known as sociocultural evolution.

Lenski mainly focused on technology as the main source of societal change.he describes that when society changes a new technology is gained by that society. He divides human history into five societies which were sustained and created by technology these stages of society are as under

Hunting and gathering socities

These are the early societies nearly 40000 years ago in these societies, people made use of extremely basic tools to help them hunt animals and gather wild plants.they are nomadic and do not from permanent settlement all the person's of a society are involved in work.and they have low inequality
2 .horticulture and pastoral society

It lasts upto12000 years ago in this society domestication of plants and animals led to new society Pastoral societies are based on domestication of animals, and they are nomadic,. Horticultural societies on the other hand are based on cultivating plants

Agrarian

This society started nearly 5000 years ago when permanent settlement of agriculture production occurs people got surplus food production by new technological tools used in agriculture in agrarian,societies enlarged their space and became complexity.

Industrial society

The technology grows from human power to machine power with the begneing Of industrail revolution the massive impact is on food production and with new technologies like the heavy machines used in farming .industrial revolution also marked a fundamental change in the organization of society.

Postindustrial stage of society

In this stage of society people got specialization in different technologies, urbanization increased day by day and technological advances enumerates these societies are economic based and massive wealth is created through technology

Lenski said as technology creates social changes as these changes are beneficial.but some are problematic lime Pollution, global warming and large scale warfare, are new problems that technology has brought us.