Continuity and Change Flashcards
What is continuity?
The persistence or consistence existence of cultural elements in a society across time.
What is change?
The alteration or modification of cultural elements in social structures and systems.
How does change occur?
It can be brought about by modernisation processes, including technological innovation.
What is social change?
Any significant alteration over time in behaviour patterns and cultural values and norms.
Why is change complex?
Change is multi-dimensional, not a straightforward path → it can be regressive and rates of change differ between societies.
What is evolutionary change?
Incremental changes over a period of time.
What is transformative change?
Dramatic and rapid change; often triggered by a specific event, or series of events.
What are three reasons for resistance to change?
Moral fear and panic, lack of control, differences in beliefs and values.
What is industrialisation?
Industrialisation is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. It involves the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
What is modernisation?
A process of dynamic social change resulting from the diffusion and adoption of the characteristics of apparently more advanced societies by other societies that are apparently less advanced.
What is secularisation?
This is when societies move away from strict adherence to a religion, along with its organisations, norms, beliefs, regulations and places of worship.
What is westernisation?
A social process where the values, customs and practices of Western industrial capitalism are adopted to form the basis of cultural change.
What are the 5 processes of social change?
Socio-cultural, technological, environmental, economic, and political.
