Understanding Social Change
Overview:
Social change refers to the transformation of culture, behavior, social institutions, and social structure over time. We are familiar from earlier chapters with the basic types of society: hunting and gathering, horticultural and pastoral, agricultural, industrial, and postindustrial. In looking at all of these societies, we have seen how they differ in such dimensions as size, technology, economy, inequality, and gender roles. In short, we have seen some of the ways in which societies change over time. Another way of saying this is that we have seen some of the ways in which societies change as they become more modern. To understand social change, then, we need to begin to understand what it means for a society to become more modern.
Suggested Book:
Vago, S. (1999). Social Change. Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey.
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- Introduction of Social Change
- Understanding Social Change
- Theories of Change
- Evolutionary Theories of Change
- Conflict Theories of Social Change
- Structural Functionalist Approaches to Social Change
- Patterns of Change
- Duration of Change
- Spheres of Change
- Impacts of Social Change
- Costs of Change
- Strategies of Change
- Assessment of Change
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Mr. Mussarat Hussain
