Full Description
Authored by Patrick Nolan, the newly revised student supplement study guide for Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology, Eleventh Edition prepares your students for class by providing them with general tips, guidelines, and strategies on how to read the text effectively and apply it to the subjects covered in your syllabus. The study guide also shows students how to read and interpret tables and figures of data, how to take notes on readings and in class, and how to take a variety of tests from multiple choice and true/false to essay tests. Each chapter of the study guide includes a summary of the corresponding chapter in the text, a list of important terms, recommended further readings, and sample quiz questions with an answer key to help students understand the concepts and theories covered in the text and to prepare them for class discussion and test taking.
Contents
Preface Introduction: General Tips, Guidelines, and Strategies Chapter 1: The Human Condition Chapter 2: Human Societies as Sociocultural Systems Chapter 3: The Evolution of Human Societies Chapter 4: Types of Human Societies Chapter 5: Hunting and Gathering Societies Chapter 6: Horticultural Societies Chapter 7: Agrarian Societies Chapter 8: Some Evolutionary Bypaths and a Brief Review Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution Chapter 10: Industrial Societies: Technologies and Economics Chapter 11: Industrial Societies: Ideologies and Politics Chapter 12: Industrial Societies: Social Stratification Chapter 13: Industrial Societies: Population, the Family, and Leisure Chapter 14: Industrializing Hybrid Societies Chapter 15: Retrospect and Prospect Appendix: Quiz Answers
