gl02 - Notes on Revision

• Lenski, Gerhard.  1994.  "Societal Taxonomies: Mapping the Social Universe."  Annual Review of Sociology 20:1-26.  cf. p. 21-22, comparison between biology adopting taxonomies based genetic (vs. phenotypic) and social scientists adopting classification based "on most powerful of the independent variables" (p. 22).  Thus:  "There is good reason to believe that the adoption of this principle (i.e., classifying societies on the basis of the most powerful independent variable) would also prove of benefit to sociology.  Unfortunately, however, there is still no consensus as to which, if any, set of societal determinants is most basic." (p. 22, emphasis in original).  Also, emphasize remark that type of society explicitly allows for "multilinear" evolution: pp. 13-14, "Finally, my taxonomy makes explicit the multilinear nature of societal evolution -- an idea that has long been recognized by many, but seldom incorporated into societal taxonomies..." (then he cites Human Societies 1991 Figure 4.3 p. 73).
• Heise, David, Gerhard Lenski, and John Wardwell.  1976.  "Further Notes on Technology and the Moral Order."  Social Forces 55:316-337.  They use principal components and show subsistence-technology based factor has most powerful explanatory contribution.
• Find passage about mobility in Egypt in Gordon, Cyrus H. and Gary A. Rendsburg.  1997.  The Bible and the Ancient Near East.  (4th edition.)  New York: Norton.
• MacDonald, Kevin.  1995.  "The Establishment and Maintenance of Socially Imposed Monogamy in Western Europe."  Politics and the Life Sciences 14: 1(February):3-23; Roundtable commentaries pp. 24-46.  (Note that discussion focuses on Western Europe; no monogamy or reduced polygyny elsewhere?  Check location of monogamous societies in EA.)
• Sanderson, Stephen K.  1999.  Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development.  New York: Rowman and Littlefield.  See especially Chapter 8 "The Question of Progress" pp. 336-357.  Also look at Cohen, Mark.  1989.  Health and the Rise of Civilization.  New Haven: Yale University Press, (cited on p. 357).