SOCIAL CHANGE
1) A. Social Change: Massive changes in the organization of society. There have been four important social revolutions:
B. Change from the tradition to the modern. (Modernity: Social patterns linked to industrialization.)
C. Technological changes : social transformation -----new social problems
D. A world system: 16th century------ 18-19th center
2) Social change & Technology
A. Ogburn: 3 processes of social change: inventions, discovery, diffusion (CULTURAL LAG is also important)
B. Three types of technology: primitive, industrial, postindustrial
C. 5 ways in which technology can shape an entire society:
D. Computerization
E. Neil Postman
TECHNOPOLY: The submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique & technology.
- "accessing" information becomes important.
Characteristics of Sustainable Societies
Societies which are able to remain in balance with its natural & social environments.
Change affects all our lives, also our personality changes constantly.
massive changes: in terms of the whole society, religion, economics, politics...all of them being influenced by social change. Change emerges at three level: personal, social and global level
Global culture thesis is a very important argument that says every people is being affected by the changes homogeneous culture.
In premodern age, different culture and passive technology, in 17th century, people started to use machines. In post industrial technology, there is an automation. The differences between the traditional societies and modern societies is that traditional societies mostly defined as homogeneous but modern societies defined as heterogeneous societies. Traditional societies has been transformed massively. People are not tolerated enough to strange things. In modern societies, tolerance for diversity is higher. Family structure is based on extended families in traditional societies. Social changes is caused by the changes in technology. When we talk about the world system, we are talking about different countries being dependent on one another. In the world system, (emerged at 16th century) we are talking about different economies being interacted with one another.