L#. SOURCES OF SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL CHANGE

Question 1

It is a form of deviance.

Answer 1

Innovation

Question 2

It refers to the new techniques to achieve desired ends.

Answer 2

Innovation

Question 3

It is an important source of social change.

Answer 3

Diffusion

Question 4

It refers to transmission of cultural characteristics or traits from the common society to all other societies. Cultures originated at one point and then spread throughout the world.

Answer 4

Diffusion

Question 5

It is the process of systematic cultural change of a particular society carried out by a new or another dominant society.

Answer 5

Acculturation

Question 6

It is the process in which individuals enter to also make them acquire the political, economic and educational standards of the more dominant culture.

Answer 6

Assimilation

Question 7

It is a process wherein individual loses all the awareness of his previous group identity and culture and adopt the traditions and attitudes of a new group where he is in.

Answer 7

Assimilation

Question 8

It is not a loss of previous or older culture but just an acquisition of some of the traits of a new culture.

Answer 8

Acculturation