____ 1. Society refers to a group of people who interact in a definable territory and share the same culture.
____2. Societies consist of various types of institutional constraints and coordination exercised over our choices and actions. The nature of our social institutions, the type of work we do, the way we think about ourselves, and the structures of power and social inequality that order our life chances are all products of the type of society we live in and thus vary globally and historically.
____3. The type of society we live in determines the nature of these types of constraints and coordination.
____ 4. The nature of our social institutions, the type of work we do, the way we think about ourselves, and the structures of power and social inequality that order our life chances are all products of the type of society we live in and thus vary globally and historically.
____5. The founder of sociology, Auguste Comte (1798-1857), provided the first sociological theory of the evolution of human societies.
____6. Auguste Comte's best-known sociological theory was the law of three stages, which held that all human societies and all forms of human knowledge evolve through three distinct stages from primitive to advanced: the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive.
____7. The key variable in defining these stages was the way people conceptualized causation or how they understood their place in the world.
____8. After the Industrial Revolution and the widespread use of machines, societies were small, rural and dependent largely on local resources. Economic production was limited to the amount of labor a human being could provide, and there were few specialized occupations.
____9. Science could reconcile the division between political factions of order and progress by eliminating the basis for moral and intellectual anarchy.
____10. Comte doesn't believe that this would be the final stage of human social evolution because positivist science could empirically determine how society should be organized.
