Unit 2 Test Flashcards
Agents and Impediments to Change
What is social change?
Social change refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values and norms. … Examples of significant social changes having long‐term effects include the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery, and the feminist movement.
Agents and Impediments to Change
Is it predictable?
In general it is unpredictable (speed and form of the change is completley unpredictible)
Agents and Impediments to Change
three petterns of social change
1 linear failure change generally leads to progress (change for good) can’t cycle –car – train –plain
2 Fluctuating change – the change may be upward & downward. The demographic change is such also economic change,
3 Cyclical change – the change is in a cycle. Fashion, sometimes also in economical aspect (Karl max gave this idea. He says earlier there was no private property & we may go back to it).
Means of Creating Social Change
There are numerous and varied causes of social change. Four common causes, as recognized by social scientists, are technology, social institutions, population, and the environment. All four of these areas can impact when and how society changes.
Means of Creating Social Change
Direct vs. Indirect action
Direct or indirect refers to the relation between an action and its effect on the environment. In that sense, direct actions are characterised by the relation between people and the environment, while indirect actions are characterised by the relation between people
Means of Creating Social Change
Violent vs. Non-Violent
Violent
Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
Non Violent
A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.
Means of Creating Social Change
Violent vs. Non-Violent Examples
Violent
- Riot
- Looting
- Vandalism
Non Violent
- Peaceful Protest
- Posters and Banners
- Walk Out
- Sit In Protest
- March
Movie Selma
Overall theme and purpose of the movie
100% Historically accurate
focused on civil rights leader MLKjr
The movie Selma is about 1965 campaign by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to protect the equal voting right for African-American citizens. So the main theme of this movie is that every citizen should have a right to vote and all citizens should have equal voting rights.
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
Three types of conformity
Herbert Kelman identified three major types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
conformity examples
Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. … Conformity can also be simply defined as “yielding to group pressures” (Crutchfield, 1955). Group pressure may take different forms, for example bullying, persuasion, teasing, criticism, etc.
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
Compliance examples
An example of compliance is when someone is told to go outside and they listen to the order. An example of compliance is when a financial report is prepared that adheres to standard accounting principles. The act of complying with a wish, request, or demand; acquiescence.
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
Alienation examples
An example of alienation is when a cheating wife is discovered by her husband, and he can no longer stand to be around her so he files for divorce. … The act of alienating or the condition of being alienated; estrangement. Alcoholism often leads to the alienation of family and friends.
The four dimensions of alienation identified by Marx are alienation from: (1) the product of labor, (2) the process of labor, (3) others, and (4) self.
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
characteristics of cults
Specific factors in cult behaviour are said to include manipulative and authoritarian mind control over members, communal and totalistic organization, aggressive proselytizing, systematic programs of indoctrination, and perpetuation in middle-class communities.
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
What characteristics do sociologists use to define cults?
Sociologists define a cult as a group:
(1) whose beliefs are seen by most of society as being “strange” or unorthodox. (2) whose members show unusual or excessive devotion to some person, idea, or thing. (3) whose leaders use unethical and/or manipulative methods of persuasion and control.
Conformity, Compliance and Alienation
signs of cultism
Opposing critical thinking.
Isolating members and penalizing them for leaving.
Emphasizing special doctrines outside scripture.
Seeking inappropriate loyalty to their leaders.
Dishonoring the family unit.
