Syllabus
1. What is macrosociology?
2. Types of societies according to Gerhard Lenski.
3. Societies of hunters and gatherers.
4. horticultural societies.
5. Agricultural societies.
6. Industrial societies.
7. Darwinian and Spencerian evolution.
8. Forces of societal development: population, Production, distribution, regulation.
9. Institutional domains of Society.
10. Symbolically generalized media
Annotation
The course deals with the science of socities from a macro perspective. Various types of societies and methods of their research are discussed.
The classification of socities is viewed from a historical and institutional perspective. The aim is to create an overall map enabling the inclusion of individual societies in the overall framework.