John J. Macionis
Kenyon College
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Drew Hurley
Santa Fe Community College
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For Use With:
John J. Macionis, Sociology, 6th ed., Prentice-Hall, 1997.
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What Is Social Change?
It happens everywhere at differnt rates
It is often unplanned
It is usually controversial
It is of varied importance
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Culture and Change
Invention
Discovery
Diffusion
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Cultural Lag
Ideas and Change
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The Natural Environment and Change
Demographic Change
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Key Dimensions of Modernization
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Change Initiated by Industrialization
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Ferdinand Toennies: The Loss of Community
Peter Berger's Characteristics:
Decline of Traditional Communities
Expansion of Personal Choice
Increasing Diversity of Beliefs
Future Orientation Toward Time
Gemeinschaft
Gesellschaft
Is There Virtue In Modern Society?
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Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labor
Specialization
Mechanical Solidarity
Organic Solidarity
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Max Weber: Rationalization & Efficiency
Role 'Types'
Efficiency
Karl Marx: Capitalism
Capitalist Revolution
Communist Revolution
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Structural-Functional Theory: Modernity as Mass Society
Mass Scale of Modern Life
Ever Expanding State
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Social Conflict Theory: Modernity as Class Society
Capitalism
Persistent Inquality
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Symbolic Interaction Theory: Modernity and the Individual
Mass Society's Problems of Identity
David Riesman's 'Social Character: Tradition-Directed
Other-Directed
Inner-Directed
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Class Society: Problems of Powerlessness
Herbert Marcuse's 'One Dimensional Man'
What Happened to Honor?
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Support for Science: A Global Survey, 1994
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| Nation | Percent claim Science will Help |
| United States | 62.4% |
| Canada | 55.1% |
| Great Britain | 47.8% |
| Mexico | 44.3% |
| France | 41.9% |
| Norway | 36.1% |
| Japan | 25.7% |
Modernity Failed
Promise of 'Progress' Fading
Science Doesn't hold All the Answers
Cultural Debates Intensifying
Social Institutions are Changing
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Can Communitarianism Revive The U.S?
Amitai Etzioni and President Clinton
Can the U.S. become Socially Responsible?
The United States: A Nation In Decline?
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Modernization Theory
Dependency Theory
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