lesson 9

• Only permanent thing in this world is change


  Heraclitus
• (Robert MacIver & Charles Page) Social change - transformations that alter the roles and status of people and the structure and organization of society
• the dynamic process where the living cultures of the world change


  cultural change
• cited the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution as examples of social change in his book Great Transformations


  Karl Polanyi
• considers technology as the primary factor that induces social change


  William Ogburn
• Jessica Matthews


  narrowcasting - dissemination of information to specific segments of the public
• Robert MacIver & Charles Page


  social change - transformations that alter the roles and status of people and the structure and organization of society
• broadcasting


  disseminate information to a broad audience
• globalization


  key driver of social change / connect state and non-state elements
• political transformations have been influenced by new technologies (t/f)


  true
• Arab Spring


  uprisings in North Africa and Middle East (2010)
• demographic shifts


  significant change in a population's composition, structure, size, andlocation
• culture of migration


  traveling abroad for work has become an opportunity for many Filipinos to better their lives.
• innovation


  introducing new ideas, things, and methods / improvement of things and processes / driven by technological changes
• diffusion 


  spread of certain elements from one group to another / once an idea is introduced and becomes widely known, greater transformations happen in society
• introduction of the mobile phone


  significant social change which involved the gradual acceptance of new technology
• spread of ideas 


  significant part of social change
• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)


  adopted by the UN in 1979 which recognized women's rights against discrimination
• Magna Carta of Women (2009) - Philippines
• processes that bring about social change


  acculturation / assimilation
• acculturation 


  learn aspects of a culture that is not their own
• assimilation


  fully adopts another culture / results in loss of the native culture
• americanization 


  assimilation for Native American groups that were removed from their tribal lands and were relocated to other areas
• social contradiction


  social groups or classes are so different that compromise is impossible
• another form of contradiction in society exists when social change ortransformations only affect a certain segment of society (t/f)

  true
• social tension


  caused by social contradictions
• issue of slavery


  sparked the civil war in the United States (1861) because some states in southern US opposed
• issue of women's rights


  pitted women's groups against the larger society fordecades since the 19th century
• Philippines


  plight of workers / poor and marginalized sectors / corruption / issue of good governance