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Flashcards by angeline martin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by angeline martin
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| Question | Answer |
| What is Social Change? | transformation of culture and social institutions over time |
| Social Change 4 Characteristics | 1.Inevitable.-2.intentional but often unplanned (cultural lag)- 3.controversial- industrial - 4. Some changes matter more than others |
| Causes of social change Sources of cultural change | 1. Invention 2. Discovery 3. Diffusion |
| Causes of social change Social movements | social movements can generate social change (reformative-civil rights, women, ecology vs, Revolutinary (Marxism proletarian movement- See table 16-1 pg 436 the US :A century of change |
| Modernity | Consists of social pattern linked to industrialization (capitalism, urbanization) changes in the division of labor to Specialization and rationality and modernism. |
| Modernity Ferdinand Toennies | interpreted modernization as a LOSS of COMMUNITY and decline of Gemeinschaft and the rise of Gesellischaft. |
| Modernity - Emile Durkheim | modernization involved an 1. increased division of labor 2. specialized economic activity 3.shift from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity (based on independence) |
| Modernity Emile Durkheim organic solidarity | organic solidarity (based on independence) - with this transition comes a greater emphasis on individual ism (freedom of choice) with that comes a decline in authentic community |
| Modernity Max Weber | analyzed modernization as the replacement of tradition with rationality - |
| Modernity Karl Marx Secondary of industrial capitalism | He anticipated a socialist revolution that would lead to an egalitarian society |
| Modernity Summing up pg. 442 Traditional and modern societies | To be determined |
| Theoretical analyses of Modernity Strucural functional theory | A mass society is a society in which industrialization, prosperity and an expanding bureaucracy have eroded traditional ties |
| Theorectical analyses of modernity Social Conflict theory | A class of society is a capitalist society with pronounced social stratification- this approach sees social revolution as necessary to eradicate the social inequality that results from capitalism |
| Modernity and the individual Mass society and the individual | Problems of identity" 1. Positive modernity liberated individuals from tradition to (an increase of individual rights) 2. Negative - difficult to establish any coherent identity--people are more social isolated and materialistic |
| Theorectical analyses - Class society = problems of powerlessness | Herbert Marcuse condems modern society as irrational because it fails to meet the needs of many people (capitalism denies freedom by concentrtaing both wealth and power in the hands of a privileged on their underlying values |
| Post Modernnity | refers to social patterns characteristic post industrial societies- 5 characteristics |
| Post Modernity Has failed in important respects | moral failure- holocaust |
| Post Modernity The bright light of progress is fading | optimism in the future replaced by doubt |
| Post Modernity Science no longer hold the answers | unintended negative consequences of science and technology |
| Post Modernity Cultural Debates are intensifying | With the growth in the degree of social diversity/ heterogeneity |
| Post Modernity Social institutions are changing | As a result of information age and the growing importance of symbolic reality vs material reality |
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