Social Change Flashcards
Cultural domination through Hegemony
Neo-Marxist
Gramsci
What is the definition of a Hegemony?
The idea that power can be exercised and reinforced through cultural life alongside physical force
Religion as a dual character
Neo-Marxist
Bloch
What are the case studies for positive social change?
The American civil rights movement
Liberation theology
How did the American civil rights movement produce social change?
Used religion as an ideological resource to find common ground in Christian values
How did Liveration theology produce social change?
Priests/Bishops were frustrated at the the Catholic Church for a lack of response to poverty so urged communities to fight and rebel
That’s the case study for negative social change?
New Christian Right
How did the New Christan Right produce social change?
A politically and morally conservative protestant fundamentalist movement that sought to take America ‘Back to God’ and away from the secual world
What is the example for economic social change?
Weber’s protestant work ethic
What type of protestantism does Weber’s protestant work ethic focus on?
Calvanism
What do Calvanists believe in and how does this link to Weber’s protestant work ethic?
Predestination (Place in heaven/he’ll already decided) so focus on fulfilling their duty as an active member of society.
Working hard produced profit that they’d reinvest in their business (cycle of Capitalism)
Successful business like this was seen as a positive sign from God.
Whatsit Weber argue about the Indian economy?
That capitalism had the means to emerge but didn’t because Hinduism and Buddhism focused on other worldly ascensionism
