Theorists
These two theorists are best know for their work on conflict theory.
Who are Karl Marx and Max Weber?
This term is used to describe the spread and dominance of Western culture.
What is Americanization?
The term "adolescence" was believed to have been coined by this theorist.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
This theory states that progressis central to change.
What is the Evolutionary Theory of Change?
George Ritzer is best associated with this term.
What is Mcdonaldization?
This theorist is best known for his theory "Social Strain Typology".
Who is Robert Merton?
This term is used to describe corporations that operate in two or more countries.
What are Transnational Corporations?
Albert Bandura claimed that we learn by watching other through this process.
What is Observational Learning?
This term refers to the spread of cultural traits from one group, through contact.
What is Acculturation?
This term is used to describe when people feel that they are "normless".
What is Anomie?
This theorist believed that early education was necessary and important for promoting change.
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
This term is used to describe countries where trade barriers are reduced or elimited.
What are Export Processing Zones?
This phenomenon describes when teens believe they are everyone's primary interest.
What is the Personal Fable?
This term describes changes enforced by one culture upon another (ex. Residential Schools).
What is Direct Change?
This occurs when the majority of the population seeks change.
What is a Paradigm Shift?
This theorist stated that society is constructed in favour of men and does not operate in the best interests of women.
Who is Dorothy Smith?
This term and Western phenomenon describes the transformation of a society from a traditional, rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, and industrial.
What is Modernization?
Albert Bandura used this term to describe his view that we learn by watching others.
What is Observational Learning?
This theorist stated that society is subject to constant change, often between the "command" class and the "obey" class.
Who is Ralf Dahrendorf?
The caste system in India is an example of this heirachy system.
What is Social Stratification?
According to this theorist, current technological advances in surveillance are similar to that of the panopticon model.
Who is Foucault?
This theorist believed that wealth flows from poor underdeveloped countries to wealthier countries.
Who is Raul Prebisch?
This is the name of Paul MacLean's three stage theory of brain development.
What is the Triune Brain?
This influential Canadian promotes change from within existing structures and looks to promote leaders with sustainable ideas to positions where they can affect change.
Who is David Suzuki?
Rumours, fads, fashion, mobs, riots, and social movements are all examples of this term.
What is Collective Behaviour?