Gerhard E. Lenski

Sociologist By Day

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This is ANOTHER book I have written. ***this is not the actual cover of the book***

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I am beyond proud of myself that i finished writing this book 🤗

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“The fact of income inequality is almost surely as old as the human species. No known society has ever had a completely egalitarian social system.”

- Gerhard E. Lenski

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Nothing like a good ole inspiration quote of the day :)

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TECH is a necessity for survival ! #roughday #techisthebest #survivingtheday

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I don’t study society to understand human behavior. I instead look at the social and cultural elements of society maintaining evolutionary perspective on Macrosociology. #macro #macrosociology #different

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“societal survival has been largely a function of a society’s level of technological advance relative to societies with which it has been in competition”

~Gerhard Lenski

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The face I give when someone says they don’t like hearing about sociology 🤦‍♂️

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Me and my beautiful wife Jean Cappelmann found this old picture today of when we got married in 1948

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Throwback Thursday to the a little piece of equipment I used while working with the 8th Air Force in England during World War II.

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Postindustrial Societies

We’re in an informational age, now. The new Vanderbilt's and Rockefellers are Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: information and online work is the new ‘material good’ -- it makes the world turn and continue.

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The First Sociologists Be Like:

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All the English People in the 18th Century: using horses and doing things themselves James Wyatt and Matthew Boulton: Watch this:

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Once a peasant, always a peasant.

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When people realized that they could make a profit from agriculture *shock!*

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Pastoral vs. Horticultural

For those who asked:

The small differences include settlement patterns and main cultivations, however both came to be around the same time (7,500 years ago) and they’re both PREindustrial.