SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wildcat Strike Action, Civil Society, Shared Belief
6 Dec 2015
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How societies work: class, power, and change (5th ed) by joanne naiman. Social change: any significant modification in the way social activities and human relationships are organized. Social change is a change that occurs on a social level: develops over time until it reaches a tipping point. Tipping point: has to tip scale in dramatic way, where a once rare practice snowballs into everyday life. Enough people breaking a norm decreases its severity to the point where it no longer becomes a norm. Paradigm shifts (e. g. technological revolution: what are the consequences of the changes, what factors trigger the change, objective, subjective. 1) the way humans react to the real, material conditions of capitalism. 2) the way we, as humans, act on and change such conditions. Personal issues shared with others becomes a social issue and represents a social trend. Individual change: seeking change by changing your behaviour.
