SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Mass Society
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What is social change? social change: the transformation of culture and social institutions over time: happens all the time, but some societies or elements change faster than others. 4. is sometimes intentional, but often unplanned is controversial some changes matter more than others. Conflict and change invention: production of new objects, ideas, and social patterns discovery: taking note of existing elements of a culture diffusion: the spread of products, people, and information from one culture to another. Marx thought that, in industrial-capitalist societies, the struggle between capitalists and workers pushes society towards a socialist system of production this model has proved simplistic, but marx foresaw correctly that social conflict arising from inequality creates social change. Max weber traced the roots of most social change to ideas. Modernization: the process of social change begun by industrialization. 4 dimensions of modernization: decline of small traditional communities spread of industrial capitalism ideas also direct social movements.
