History of Technology & Social Change 🌍

Many social theories are created by a number of sociologists and anthropologists. These theories deal with social and cultural revolution. Many of them consider technological progress as a primary factor to drive human civilization developments. Morgan divides social evolution in three stages including savagery, barbarism and civilization. These stages can be divided using technological milestones. Fire is a great example of such technological milestone. White suggested that energy is a great measure to judge the human Cultural Revolution. <br />White strongly believed that harnessing the control over energy is the primary function of culture. According to him, there are five main stages in the process of human development:<br />Own muscles of humans are used as energy source<br />Domesticated animals serve the energy<br />In third stage, energy is derived from plants (agricultural revolution)<br />Natural resources such as coal, oil, gas are optimized for energy<br />In final stage, nuclear energy is harnessed