2. It may refer to the notion of social progress or socio-cultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by dialectical or evolutionary means.
3. It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure.relations.
4. For instance, a shift away from feudalism and towards capitalism. Accordingly, it may also refer to social revolution, such as the Socialist revolution presented in Marxism, or to other social movements, such as Women's suffrage or the Civil rights movement. Social change may be driven by cultural, religious, economic, scientific or technological forces. More generally, social change may include changes in nature, social institutions, social behaviors or social
5. In Sociology, the term social change refers to a major change in a society or culture that has lasting effects on that culture. The abolition of slavery is an example of social change.
6. 1) Materialistic perspectives(materialistic factors are usually economic production and technology) Marxist perspective: economic production, economic classes form the basic anatomy of society, and everything else arises in relationship to them Other materialistic perspectives: Cultural lag theory (W. Ogburn) technological causes of change, material culture (technology) changes more quickly than nonmaterial culture (values, ideas, norms, ideologies), i.e. there is a period of maladjustment (a lag time) during which nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions CAUSES OF SOCIAL CHANGE
10. In Catholicism, work is merely mundane activity to keep one alive, encouraging other-worldly asceticism where highest form of activity was devotion to God, men were accountable to the Church which sought to regulate the operation of the economy and other secular aspects of society in terms of religious values. No reason in values to ban consumption. Discussed China and India, whose faiths, Confucianism & Taoism and Hinduism respectively, also weren’t favorable to the development of capitalism.
11. Cultural ideas, values, and ideologies that have broadly shaped directions of social change in modern world: freedom and self-determination material growth and security nationalism, e.g. French & English Canadians, English & Irish, Germans & French, Palestinians, Kurdish, Basque separatists and Spanish Capitalism: not only type of economic system but also ideology, connected set of values and ideas emphasizing positive benefits of pursuing one’s private economic interests, competition and free markets Marxism
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13. providing a basis for social solidarity necessary to promote change, i.e. integrative mechanisms, neutralizing the conflicting strains found in society, e.g. mobilizing force during war
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15. Parson’s Evolutionary Theory- types of change: System maintenance – most common: restoring a previous pattern of equilibrium Structural differentiation- very common: increasing differentiation of subsystem units into patterns of functional specialization and interdependence Adaptive upgrading: new mechanisms of integration, coordination and control are developed to incorporate the integrative problems by having structural differentiation Structural change – least common change: when key features of the system, e.g. basic cultural values, goals, distribution
16. Key evolutionary universals that were evident in transition from pre-modern to modern societies (describes modernism but does not explain it): social stratification bureaucratic organization cultural legitimation of existing structural arrangements money economy and markets generalized or universalistic social norms democratic associations Neo-functionalism
20. 2) CONFLICT THEORIES(relates to Dialectical models of social change) Strains are inherent in social structures. Source of strains/contradictions is the inherent scarcity of certain goods and values. Thus inequality is source of conflict. Neo-Marxism - differs from Marxism in the following ways: Sources of conflict - traditional Marxism too narrow an understanding of structural basis of conflict, doesn’t always derive from struggles in control of the means of production; other conflicts based on politics, religion, ethnic or ideological differences, e.g. class, status and power
22. symbolic realism of ideas, values and ideologies are semi-autonomous and not merely derivative of material base (Critical theorists analyze cultural and cultural ideologies in modern society as manifested in popular literature and mass media); Culture is viewed as symbolic formations and ideologies that become tools in social struggles between various groups and classes, i.e. ideas and values produce solidarity and unity (as functionalists agree)
23. It also social control associated with interests of particular groups; same as Marxism, i.e. dominant culture stems from dominant groups in society; production of culture is one way that existing system reproduces itself; when there is widespread disillusion, disbelief or cynicism about dominant symbols in society, a legitimacy crisis - change occurs
24. Inevitability of revolutionary change: neo-Marxists less deterministic about outcomes, not simply total system transformation or revolution, nor inevitable; one result of contradictions could be reaffirming of dominance, or ongoing stalemate, or gradual reform and piecemeal changes
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26. regulated by social norms: e.g. economic boycotts, parliamentary debate, marketplace competitions
27. intense conflict: high degree of mobilization, commitment, emotional involvement
33. Ralf Dahrendorf saw combination of functionalism and conflict theory, Human societies are stable and long lasting yet they also experience serious conflict. Social control in general is broadest basis of conflict in society. All social systems have association of roles and statuses which embody power relationships, some cluster of roles have power to extract conformity; power relationships tend to be institutionalized as authority – normative rights to dominate; i.e. some have authority to give orders, others obliged to obey.
34. What about change not rooted in conflict? E.g. cultural or technological change Sees only dichotomous authority relations rather than continuous gradations of relationships What of non-institutionalized power relationships – deals with authority, only one form of power; what of violence, or age/gender/race and associated conflicts not based on economics Criticisms
35. 3) INTERPRETIVE THEORIES derived from Weber, whose focus was not solely on overt behaviour and events but also on how these are interpreted, defined and shaped by cultural meanings that people give to them, i.e. interpretive understanding of social action – verstehen. All types of interpretive theories focus on way actors define their social situations and the effect of these definitions on ensuing action and interaction; human society is an ongoing process rather than an entity or structure, as humans interact they negotiate order, structure and cultural meanings. Reality is an ongoing social symbolic construction put together by human interaction. For Functionalists and Conflict theorists, the starting point of sociological analysis of change is structure.
36. For Interpretivists, change itself (interaction, process, negotiation) is the starting point, and structure is a by-product and temporary. Social change is the constant creation, negotiation and re-creation of social order. Social change can be understood by looking at change in meanings and definitions. Groups, societies, organizations become real only insofar that the actors believe they are to be real, thus a negotiated consensus about what is real emerges; i.e. society is literally a social construction, an outcome of historical process of symbolic interaction and negotiation. In complex societies, there is only a partial consensus on what constitutes objective social reality, instead there is a virtual tapestry of contending realities. When external factors change, this does not automatically produce social change. Rather when people redefine situations regarding those factors and thus act upon revised meanings, i.e. alter social behaviour, then there is social change. BUT……..
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38. Argue humans are less constrained by external factors, thus these theories are less deterministic
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40. Buckley’s morphogenesis: unique capacity of social systems to elaborate or change their form, structure or state, emphasizing the active, constructive side of social functioning Archers’ double morphogenesis: both structure and agency are cojoint products of interaction, agency is shaped by and reshapes structure where structure is reshaped in the process.
41. Etzioni’s active society: society is a macroscopic and permanent social movement engaged in intensive and perpetual self-transformation Touraine: making of society and history is carried out by collective action, through the agency of social movements Gidden’sStructuration theory: replaced static concept of structure with dynamic notion of structuration - more later (see my thesis information).
43. Among the more significant factors of social change are new technologies, new ideas, economic power, times of extreme crisis, empowering visions, persuasive skill, new forms of organization, and conditions of systemic collapse. But perhaps the most potentially powerful factors of social change are masses of oppressed and marginalized people with a deeply held determination to become the key factors of social change for the common good.
44. From within the mass of marginalized people there arises from time to time the “divine discontent” that becomes a vision for social change, the motivation to mobilize, energy for action, determination to persevere, and the steadfast commitment to pay the price for being one of the primary factors of social change. When such a body of people is driven by a vision for social justice they can overcome all other forms of power that resist social change and become the largest factors of social change.
45. The book Journeys into Justicedescribes religious collaboration as a form of organizing people power that brings marginalized people together with others to become one of the factors of social change. Ten case histories are presented that vividly portray the human dynamics of successful organization for social justice. The key factors of social change are people with a profound need for a more just set of social arrangements collaborating for major goals that serve the common good. Religious collaboration becomes one of these powerful factors of social change when it is rooted in deeply held values, enables diverse groups with different viewpoints to find common ground, motivates the sharing of resources, promotes patient and careful planning, and builds strategic action with a long-range perspective. As one of the factors of social change, religious collaboration becomes especially powerful when it is embodied in an organization of people who have suffered the consequences of injustice and have discovered that they can become the change that they seek.
47. Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.
48. Globalization is not new, though. For thousands of years, people—and, later, corporations—have been buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances, such as through the famed Silk Road across Central Asia that connected China and Europe during the Middle Ages. Likewise, for centuries, people and corporations have invested in enterprises in other countries. In fact, many of the features of the current wave of globalization are similar to those prevailing before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
50. Posted on March 27th, 2007 by vinarcid0810 At the end of the xx century, globalization is characterized by the variety of its manifestation.Technologic and economic globalization has been the point of departure of other types of globalization.Technological and economic globalization regards all the phases of the economic circle. In particular, there is a financial capitals’ globalization on which market, operator of all the world work connected to the principal “square” of the world thanks the telematic.
51. The state is not able to controll the phenomenon because of the big sizes. This dizzy movement of money is speculative, while a little percentual regards investiments in economic activities.These alternate phases of investiments are made caser by globalization of the concerns.
52. Commercial globalization is characterized by the free circulation of goods and by direct investment.Economic globalization is given by modern technologies of transports and telecommunications, so now a days, globalization is the result of that decrease in time and space.
53. Then, we have ambient globalizationalso called GLOBAL CHANGE. His most important manifestation is the is the elevation of the temperature of atmosphere, because of emission of CO2. Cultural globalization is given by the development of media all over the world and by the disappear of local production and lifestyle.
54. At last, there is a geopolitic globalizationwhich consist in a growing and immeinterdependence of the decision and politic event of different states, the superiority of ones over others for example the USA. A form of globalization meakeris the globalization of institutions. The existent politic world organisms like ONU, have a limited capability to regulate limits, to impose issues jurisdictional to powers. All this, doesn’t give the opportunity of an effective globalization of work’s market.
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