Anthropology, Psychology & Sociology
The study of human cultures, rituals, and traditions.
What is Anthropology
This factor includes inventions and technological advancements.
What is Technology
This theory argues that society changes slowly and gradually.
What is evolutionary theory
A shift in behaviours, values, or structures in society.
What is social change
This Canadian anthropologist studied global cultures and disappearing languages.
Who is Wade Davis?
The study of individual behaviour and mental processes.
What is Psychology
This factor includes natural disasters or pandemics.
What is the physical environment?
This theory argues that change happens due to conflict between groups.
What is conflict theory
Judging another culture based on your own cultural standards.
What is ethnocentrism
This author wrote The Tipping Point about how small actions create big change.
Who is Malcolm Gladwell?
The study of social structures, institutions, and group behaviour.
What is Sociology
What is the physical environment
What is culture
This theory argues that society seeks balance and stability.
What is functionalist theory
A model or framework used to understand society.
What is a social paradigm
Gladwell’s concept describes when an idea spreads rapidly through society.
What is the tipping point
This discipline often uses participant observation to gather data.
What is anthropology
This factor includes population growth, aging, or migration.
What are demographics
This theory argues that change happens when ideas spread through society.
What is diffusion theory
The mental discomfort caused by holding conflicting beliefs.
What is cognitive dissonance
Wade Davis is best known for studying this type of knowledge system.
What is Indigenous or traditional ecological knowledge
This discipline studies how social forces shape individual behaviour.
What is Sociology
This factor includes government policies, laws, and political movements.
What is social/political change?
This theory argues that change occurs when society reaches a breaking point or crisis.
What is cyclical theory
The study of large-scale social systems and institutions.
What is macrosociology
Gladwell argues that these three types of people help ideas spread.
Who are connectors, mavens, and salesmen?