social change

Question 1

Social Change

Answer 1

The transformation of culture and social institutions

it happens all the time and some elements change faster than others
it is controversial
intentional but unplanned
some changes matter more than others

Question 2

Causes of social change

Answer 2

Culture and change
Conflict and change
Ideas and change
demographic change
Collective behaviour and change

Question 3

Define collective behaviour

Answer 3

activity involving a large number of people that is unplanned, often controversial, and can bring about change

Question 4

Define crowd

Answer 4

a temporary gathering of
people who share a common focus of attention and who influence one another

Question 5

Define riot

Answer 5

a social eruption that is highly emotional, violent, and undi-rected

Question 6

Define Mob

Answer 6

a highly emotional crowd that
pursues a violent or destruc-tive goal

Question 7

Define fashion

Answer 7

social patterns favoured by a large number of people

Question 8

Define fad

Answer 8

an unconventional social pattern that people embrace briefly but enthusiastically

Question 9

Social movement

Answer 9

an organized activity in which people set out to encourage or discourage social change

Question 10

Types of social movement

Answer 10

Alternative social movement
Redemptive social movement
Revolutionary social movement
Reformative social movement

Question 11

Claims making

Answer 11

the process of trying to con-vince the public and public officials of the importance of joining a social movement to address a particular issue

Question 12

Relative depriviation

Answer 12

a perceived disadvantage arising from some specific comparison

Question 13

Stages of social movements

Answer 13

emergance
Coalesence
bureaucratiza-tion
decline

Question 14

disaster

Answer 14

an event, generally unex-pected, that causes extensive harm to people and damage to property

Question 15

Define modernity

Answer 15

changes brought about by the indistrial revolution

Question 16

modernization

Answer 16

the process of social change begun by industrialization

Question 17

Peter Berger

Answer 17

identified four characteristics of modernization

the decline of small an traditional communities
the expansion of personal choice
increasing social diversity
orientation towards the future and increasing awareness of time

Question 18

Ferdinand Tönnies

Answer 18

1.With modernization comes the loss of the human community
2.focus is no individuality
3.Modernity brings about impersonal relationships
4.Competition rather than group success

Question 19

division of labour

Answer 19

specialized economic activity

Question 20

Anomie

Answer 20

a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals

Question 21

max weber, rationilization

Answer 21

3. modernity meant replacing a traditional worldview with a rational way of thinking.
4. In pre-industrial societies, tradition acts as a constant brake on social change.
5. Adaptation of whatever social patterns allow them to achieve their goals
6. value efficiency, have little reference for the past

Question 22

Karl marx, capitalism

Answer 22

1. Industrial revolution was a capitalist revolution
   2.theories of class society, a capitalist society with pronounced social stratification
2. Promotes self cenerism

Question 23

Structural-Functional Theory: Modernity as Mass Society

Answer 23

Emile Durkheim and weber

1. understands modernity as the emergence of a mass society which is highly productive and people make good income though they feel isolated and lonely
2. Mechanical solidarity: Society was held together by common world sentiments
3. Organic solidarity: modernity during which time social bonding by way of specialized work
4. Anomie: not being connected to society

Question 24

Mass society

Answer 24

a society in which prosperity and expanding bureaucracy have weakened traditional social ties

Question 25

Urbanism is a way of life

Answer 25

1. Mass society can make finding an identity different
2. People can shuffle from one identity to another
3. George Simmel; Blase Aptitude meaning tey remove themselves from society when they cannot fit in

Question 26

Post Modernity

Answer 26

Shift in technology
post industrial societies
increased reletivism
social problems by modernity