Author Question: Lewis Henry Morgan argued that the major mechanism that explains the change from primitive society ... (Read 26 times)

Alygatorr01285 · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Lewis Henry Morgan argued that the major mechanism that explains the change from primitive society to civil society is

a. the domestication of plants and animals
b. the change from polytheistic to monotheistic religion
c. the development of a phonetic alphabet and writing
d. the move from incoherent homogeneity to coherent heterogeneity

Question 2

According to Erik Olin Wright, evolutionary theories have which of the following characteristics

a. they organize history into a typology of stages
b. they assume there is a greater chance of societies evolving to a higher stage
rather than regressing back to an earlier one
c. they identify mechanisms that explain the movement from one societal stage
to another
d. all of these
e. none of these