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What is Social
Change?
Social Change
Examples of Social
Change
Causes of Social
Change
dramatic event
Cultural and technological
innovations
Shifting population size
Environmental pressures
Diffusion from other cultures
Media
Others?
change may be
one of most accelerated
Computers have become
indispensable
Convenience and access to
information
Negatives?
Loss of privacy
Blurring of traditional lines
between work and home
Alternative Movement
Redemptive Movement
Reformative Movement
Transformative Movement
Conformity of the
People
Causes of Social
Change
Causes of Social
Change
Lead to changes in (by Industrialization ):
a. Work place, people work outside of the
home/community which lead to changes in gender
activities (value of child care, value of labor).
b. Work became centered and organized around
machines. Alienation from a particular group.
c. Weapons production guns, nuclear weapons.
d. Informative Society, Information are available around
us that also leads to the social change.
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2. Modernization:
Social Change
Forming of social institutions to
regulate behavior.
Laws and sanctions to regulate
behavior.
Control over and management of
environmental resources: oil, water,
land, animals, etc.
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3. Urbanization:
When large populations live in urban areas rather than
rural areas known as urbanization. Usually results
from economic opportunities: either people move to a
city for jobs, or rural areas become the sites of large
businesses which lead to population growth.
4. Bureaucratization:
By which most formal organizations in a society
(businesses, government, non-profits) run their
organizations via the use of extreme rational and
impersonal thinking, an extreme division of labor, and
record keeping.
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Social
6. Political and Change
Legal Power:
a) Elected officials:
Redistribution of wealth to the all the peoples by the
elected persons and control over income and
property taxes. They can charge over negative
action, ability to sue insurance companies, increase
minimum wage in labor (leads to change in
unemployment, part-time employment, health
insurance.
b) Unelected officials:
Such as the civil society ,they can control over
corporate power (jobs, goods and services and cost
of culture, donations to political campaigns.
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7. Ideology :
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8. Diffusion:
Populations in the world are adopting new goods and
services from anywhere he or she stays. Much of the
materialist products are being applied to following the
marketing policy .(celebrities campaigns in drinking milk,
cold drinks), public health (birth control in less
developed countries) etc.
9. Acculturation
Examples: Asian Americans, American Indians are
being eliminated through the dominancy of white
American people. People can prevent social change by
preventing acculturation,
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Natural Forces of
Social Change
GEOGRAPHY
ENVIRONMENT
Examples