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Industrial technology has raised living standards in a number of societies.

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Marx argued that industrial-capitalist societies had two main social classes: capitalists and proletarians

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The Industrial Revolution was underway in parts of Europe by the time the explorer Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492.

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The subordination of women by men is clearly evident in hunting and gathering societies.

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Gerhard Lenski dismissed technology as of little importance in shaping cultural patterns.

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Hunting and gathering societies are nomadic.

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Gerhard Lenski used the concept "sociocultural evolution" to refer to how technological innovation changes the shape of societies.

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Karl Marx and Max Weber agreed that modern society generates alienation,although for different reasons.

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Emile Durkheim viewed society as an external,objective reality.

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Marx claimed that capitalism alienated workers from their work,and also from each other.

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Forces of nature have the greatest effect on societies with the simplest technology.

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Weber viewed rationality as a liberating force that would free the human spirit.

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Marx viewed industrial capitalism as highly rational and Weber did not.

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Marx viewed alienation as an aid to social change.

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Hunting and gathering societies generate a productive surplus.

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In general,industrialization results in less schooling and a sharp increase in the share of the population that is illiterate.

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Hunting and gathering societies have elected leaders.

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Max Weber used the concept "rationalization of society" to point to historical change from tradition to rationality as the dominant mode of human thought.

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Horticultural societies typically form permanent settlements.

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Marx believed that proletarians could never overcome their false consciousness.

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