Chapter 3 Flashcards
Refers to variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization, of sub groups within a society, or of the entire society itself.
Social Change
Three Causes of Social Change are?
Inventions, Discovery, and Diffusion
Is a new combination or a new use of existing knowledge.
Invention
2 Classifications of Invention
Material Invention
Social Invention
Are ideas, and social patterns that reshape society to varying degrees.
Social Invention
Takes place when people reorganized existing elements of the world they had not noticed before or learned to see in a new way.
Discovery
Refers to the spread of culture traits from one group to another.
Diffusion
Includes all categories of change in the direction of open, participatory and accountable politics.
Political Change
Refers to all alternations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a culture’s content and structure.
Cultural Change