chapter 15 social change and the environment. how social change transforms social life four social...
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Chapter 15
Social Change and the Environment
How Social Change Transforms Social Life
• Four Social Revolutions
• From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft
• The Industrial Revolution and Capitalism– Max Weber traced capitalism to the
Protestant Reformation
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How Social Change Transforms Social Life
• Conflict, Power, and Global Politics– A Brief History of Geopolitics– G-7 Plus– Dividing up the World– Two Threats to Coalition– Africa Connections
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Theories and Processes of Social Change
• Evolution from Lower to Higher– Unilinear– Multilinear– Cultural Progress
• Natural Cycles
• Conflict Over Power
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Theories and Processes of Social Change
• Ogburn’s Theory– Invention– Discovery– Diffusion– Cultural Lag
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Marx’s Model of Historical Change
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How Technology Changes Society
• Technology is Tools & Skills
• All human groups make and use technology
• Change is rapid
• New technologies allow us to do what has never been done before
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Computers and Social Interaction
• Changes in Social Relationships
• Privacy and the Computer
• Computers in Education
• Computers in Business and Finance
• Computers in International Conflict
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Concerns About the Computer
• Big Brother and Privacy
• Cyberspace and Social Inequality– Access to Libraries of Information– World Linked by Almost Instantaneous
Communication– National and Global Stratification Represents
a Digital Divide
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Social Movements as a Source of Social Change
• Proactive social movement
• Reactive social movement
• Social movement organizations
• Types of Social Movements
• Propaganda and the Mass Media
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The Stages of Social Movements
• Initial unrest and agitation
• Resource mobilization
• Organization
• Institutionalization
• Decline and death
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The Growth Machine vs. The Earth
• The Globalization of Capitalism and the Race for Economic Growth
• A Sustainable Environment
• Environmental Problems in the Most Industrialized Nations– Toxic Wastes
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The Worst Hazardous Waste Sites
The Growth Machine vs. The Earth
– Fossil Fuels and Global Warming• Acid Rain• Greenhouse Effect• Global Warming
– The Energy Shortage and Internal Combustion Engines
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The Growth Machine vs. The Earth
– The Rain Forests
• The Environmental Movement
• Environmental Sociology– Technology and the Environment: The Goal of
Harmony
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