culture
reification
cultural relativism
social control
division of labor
socialization
ethnocentrism
society
natural selection
structural complexity
norms
surplus wealth
demography
economy
family
geography
knowledge
polity
stratification
Basic characteristics of forms of social organization and changes in the transitions:
hunter-gatherers
pastoral/horticultural
agricultural
industrial
post-industrial
Sanderson Chapter 1
nomothetic and ideographic
teleology
different approaches of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists
probabilistic causation
individuals create social structure and social change
social structures are the units of evolution
gradualist and punctualist changes
parallel evolution
synchronic and diachronic data
Sanderson Chapter 2, 3, 4
neolithic revolutions and key changes
characteristics of bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states and changing institutions
why and where did states/civilizations develop
part played by trade, class conflict, population pressure, irrigation agriculture, circumscription
what held agrarian states together
class structure and class relations in agrarian states
characteristics of agrarian states
why were agrarian states so slow to change
why did they finally change � �behind the back� changes