Theories of Social Change
The three (3) forces of social change
What is geography, external events, and technology?
A feeling that one does not share in the major goals of society; feeling like an "outsider".
What is alienation?
The line that determines whether you are considered "poor" or not.
What is LICO (low-income-cut-off line)?
A reliance on technology that results in experiencing anxiety when it is not working properly.
What is technostress?
Refers to societies that used lots of land (slash and burn).
What is extensive horticulture?
The sociological theory that seeks to explain howm why, and at what rate new ideas and technologies spread.
What is diffusion of innovations?
A term that relates to change that can occur from people joining together for a common cause (i.e., Civil Rights Movement)
What is a social movement?
The types (2) of income inequality that are revealed when you compare the percentage of wealth earned by each quintile or by different groups.
What are relative and absolute income inequality?
What is technological determinism?
The introduction of power-driven machinery.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These types (2) of behaviour modification involve adding something desirable or removing something unpleasant to increase wanted behaviour.
What is positive and negative reinforcement?
Provides financial assisstance for living expenses and employment supports to residents in temporary financial need through an application process.
What is welfare?
A theory associated with coping with technology that argues that material culture develops faster than non-material culture, resulting in cultures struggling to adapt to new material conditions.
What is cultural lag theory?
The revolution that has led to the creation of social media and AI.
What is the information revolution?
A prolonged contact between two cultures, during which time they interchange symbols, beliefs, and customs. It can take place freely (incorporation) or through directed change (i.e., colonization).
What is acculturation?
A condition for social change, where an example is the modernization efforts in Saudi Arabia.
What is role of elites?
TRUE OR FALSE: Education is a pathway out of poverty, since 80% of low-income parents in Canada hadn't completed high school.
FALSE: Education is not necessarily a pathway out of poverty since 80% of low-income parents in Canada had completed high school.
The term coined by Alvin Toffler that refers to "the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future".
This allowed society to diversify, leading to a division of labour.
What is the emergence of cities?
The 6 stages of behaviour modification.
What is precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination?
A condition for social change that relates to the willingness of people to make the kinds of changes that charismatic leaders and/or elites are asking for.
What is populace ready for change?
A policy that aimed to tackle systemic discrimination and identified four main groups impacted: minorities, Aboriginals, and people with mental and physical disabilities.
What is the Employment Equity Act?
The three (3) main impacts of technology on the family.
What is making life easier for the family, limiting family interaction, and the deterioration of the family (hyperculture)?
What is a draft plough?