Unit 2: 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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- Unit 1: Introduction
- Unit 2: Understanding Social Change
- Unit 03: Dimensions and Sources of Change
- Unit 04: Theories of Change
- Unit 05: Evolutionary Theories of Change
- Unit 06: Conflict Theories of Social Change
- Unit 07: Structural Functionalist Approaches to Social Change
- Unit 08: Patterns of Change
- Unit 09: Duration of Change
- Unit 10: Spheres of Change
- Unit 11: Reactions to Change
- Unit 12: Impacts of Social Change
- Unit 13: Costs of Change
- Unit 14: Strategies of Change
- Unit 15: Assessment of Change
- Chapters 16
- Department Sociology and Criminology
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Mr. Asad Umair
