SOC 384 - Evolution of Social Stratification

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Rocky Mountain College

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Description:

Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. The objective of this course is to muse about how the widespread modern phenomenon of social stratification originally evolved. While humans lived as egalitarian hunters and gatherers for 99% of their history, and all scientifically studied hunters and gatherers have an egalitarian social structure, no one knows how unequal power and wealth developed. How did societies in which having more than others, or trying to tell others what to do, were considered sure signs of insanity, change into stratified societies? This course explores ideas that chiefdoms, intermediate between tribes and states, hold some answers because they are the first to achieve non-kin based organization with stratified power and wealth.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

rocky.edu

Phone Number:

(406) 657-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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