Definitions
Culture with faith or religion as the source of knowledge. People value a spiritual life.
What is Ideational Culture.
Can produce anything from a great weakening of society to rapid social improvements.
What is Population Growth.
Sociological theory that modernization will not override cultural differences.
What is Divergence Theory.
It occurs when existing elements are combined to provide new ones, not excluding technological, bureaucracies, and corporations.
What is Invention?
Change within a small institution, such as family or a business v.s. gradual alterations in an entire society that takes place as it shifts from simple to more complex.
What is micro-change vs macro-change.
Culture where specific evidence is the source of knowledge . People value a particular and materialistic life.
What is Sensate Culture.
Is a slow threat to society due to fewer workers to perform the necessary jobs.
What is Loss of Population.
Sociological theory that through modernization societies will come together and be more alike than they were before it.
What is Convergence Theory.
It is the new way of seeing reality and producing social changes only when other conditions are rights.
What is Discovery?
Change the proceeds in one direction through different stages
What is Nonlinear Process.
The idea that shifts from one form of culture to another when sufficient forces build within society itself.
What is the Principle of Imminent Change.
Movement of people forces changes in social institutions
What is Migration.
Talcott Parsons's theory that social change is a result of interdependence of social institutions.
What is Equilibrium Theory.
It is the spread of an invention or discovery throughout society by the spread of ideas, values, and social institutions.
What is Diffusion?
As family, politics, economy, and religion become increasingly separate entities, society becomes more complex.
What is Social Differentiation.
An increase in the number of older or younger people in society can shift the emphasis of social programs.
What is Age Distribution Change.
Sociological theory about how societies become more complex with an increase in social differentiation.
What is Neo-Evolutionary Theory.
The process of change from a traditional to a modern society.
What is Modernization.
It occurs when there is a significant shift in patterns of social and cultural behaviors, relationships, institutions, and systems.
What is Social Change?
Social change moves through cycles, not proceeding straight lines.
What is Cyclical Theory.