MACIONIS/GERBER SOCIOLOGY SUCCESS
AND REVISION GUIDE 2026
◉ Marx noted 4 ways in which capitalism alienates workers:
Answer: 1. Alienation from the act of working.
2. Alienation from the products of work
3. Alienation from other workers
4. Alienation from human potential
◉ Socialism Answer: A system of production that could provide for
the social needs of all
◉ Bureaucracy Answer: The growth of large, rational organizations
is one of the defining traits of modern societies( weber believe that
Bureaucracy has much in common with capitalism)
◉ Mechanical solidarity Answer: ____ Solidarity guides the social life
of individuals
◉ Industrialization and the ___ weaken traditional bonds, so that
social life in modern societies is characterized
by _____ Answer: Division of labor, Organic solidarity
, ◉ Society Answer: People who interact in a defined territory and
share a culture
◉ Sociocultural evolution Answer: Lenski term for the changes that
occur as a society gains new technology
◉ Making use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation
for food Answer: Hunting and gathering
◉ Horticulture Answer: The use of hand tools to raise crops
◉ Pastoralism Answer: Domestication of animals
◉ Agriculture Answer: Large scale cultivation using plows
harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources
◉ Industrialism Answer: The production of goods using advanced
sources of energy to drive large machinery
◉ Post industrialism Answer: The production of information using
computer technology(coined by Daniel Bell 1973)
◉ *Raise animals for food and use hand tools to raise crops
AND REVISION GUIDE 2026
◉ Marx noted 4 ways in which capitalism alienates workers:
Answer: 1. Alienation from the act of working.
2. Alienation from the products of work
3. Alienation from other workers
4. Alienation from human potential
◉ Socialism Answer: A system of production that could provide for
the social needs of all
◉ Bureaucracy Answer: The growth of large, rational organizations
is one of the defining traits of modern societies( weber believe that
Bureaucracy has much in common with capitalism)
◉ Mechanical solidarity Answer: ____ Solidarity guides the social life
of individuals
◉ Industrialization and the ___ weaken traditional bonds, so that
social life in modern societies is characterized
by _____ Answer: Division of labor, Organic solidarity
, ◉ Society Answer: People who interact in a defined territory and
share a culture
◉ Sociocultural evolution Answer: Lenski term for the changes that
occur as a society gains new technology
◉ Making use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation
for food Answer: Hunting and gathering
◉ Horticulture Answer: The use of hand tools to raise crops
◉ Pastoralism Answer: Domestication of animals
◉ Agriculture Answer: Large scale cultivation using plows
harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources
◉ Industrialism Answer: The production of goods using advanced
sources of energy to drive large machinery
◉ Post industrialism Answer: The production of information using
computer technology(coined by Daniel Bell 1973)
◉ *Raise animals for food and use hand tools to raise crops
