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The sociologist who classified societies by their technological sophistication was:Read the answer and worked solution →Societies before the Industrial Revolution were small, rural and dependent on resources that were:Read the answer and worked solution →The society type showing the strongest dependence on the natural environment is:Read the answer and worked solution →Societies built on the domestication of animals are described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Societies based on growing and cultivating plants in one place are described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Societies that moved from digging sticks to permanent tools are described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Societies with a strict hierarchy of power built around land ownership are described as:Read the answer and worked solution →The dramatic rise in technological invention in eighteenth-century Europe is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Societies based on the production of information rather than material goods are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The three thinkers forming the base of modern sociological perspectives were Marx, Weber and:Read the answer and worked solution →Durkheim compared society to a living organism in which each part plays a role that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Social order held together by the collective conscience of a culture is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Social order resting on acceptance of economic and social differences is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Marx held that all elements of a society's structure depend on its structure that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Marx saw conflict between the proletariat and the owners of the means of production, called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Isolation from one's society, work or sense of self Marx called:Read the answer and worked solution →Holding beliefs that are not in one's own interest Marx called false:Read the answer and worked solution →Awareness of one's own rank in society Marx called class:Read the answer and worked solution →Weber's analysis of modern society centred on the concept of:Read the answer and worked solution →Weber's 1904 essays introduced the work ethic he called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the society typesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the founding thinkersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the society gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the sociology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Durkheim or MarxRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the sociology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Society bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The sociologist who classified societies by their technological sophistication was:

  1. Lenski
  2. Lister
  3. Larkin
  4. Lawson
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Correct answer: A. Lenski

1. He argued technology sets what a society can do. 2. As technology advances, so does the society. 3. That sociologist was Gerhard Lenski. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 4, Society and Social Interaction._

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Societies before the Industrial Revolution were small, rural and dependent on resources that were:

  1. Leased
  2. Local
  3. Loaned
  4. Landed
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Correct answer: B. Local

1. No machines existed to move goods at scale. 2. Production was limited to nearby labour and materials. 3. So they depended on local resources. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 4, Society and Social Interaction._

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The society type showing the strongest dependence on the natural environment is:

  1. Hunter-gatherer
  2. Home-gardener
  3. Horse-breeder
  4. House-builder
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Correct answer: A. Hunter-gatherer

1. It was the basic form of human society for millennia. 2. Food came directly from what the land provided. 3. That type is hunter-gatherer. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 4, Society and Social Interaction._

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