UCSP

• Social Change - Variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization.
• Social Change - Manifested in the rise or fall of groups, communities or institutional structures.
• Social Change - Functions or changes in the statuses and roles of members in the family, work, setting, etc.
• 3 Causes of Social Change

  1. Invention
  2. Discovery
  3. Diffusion
• Invention - a new combination or a new use of existing knowledge.
• Invention - produces mechanical objects, ideas, and social patterns that reshape society to varying degress
• Discovery - when people reorganize existing elements of the world they had not noticed before or learned to see in a new way
• Discovery - contribute to the emergence of new paradigms or perspectives
• Discovery - addition to the store of verified knowledge
• Diffusion - the spread of cultural traits from one group to another
• 4 process of Diffusion

  1. Enculturation
  2. Socialization
  3. Association
  4. Integration
• Enculturation - process by which an individual learns or acquires the important aspects of his or her society's culture
• Enculturation - gradual acceptance of another culture
• Education - is the most popular form of enculturation
• Socialization - lifelong process of forging identity through social interaction
• Language - as well as social agents that teach aspects of culture to the members of society
• Socialization - learning through constant exposure and experience to culture
• Association - establishing a connection with the culture
• Integration - the assimilation of culture as manifested by change
• Political Change - includes all categories of change in the direction of open, participatory, and accountable politics
• Political Change - the change in the realm of civil and political societies
• Political Change - awareness and participation of the youth during the election process
• Political Change - "Pressure Groups"
• Cultural Change - all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes
• Cultural Change - changes in a culture's content and structure
• Cultural Change - maybe caused by changes in the physical environment, population, war and conquest
• Causes of Cultural Change

  1. physical environment
  2. natural calamities
  3. migration
  4. war or constant fighting
  5. technology
  6. random events/acts of man
• Physical Environment - caused by earthquakes repeated flooding, severe droughts
• Natural calamities - may give the people a newfound sense of resiliency. new perspectives, coping mechanisms
• Migration - population movements due to ...
• War or Constant fighting - for territorial/political sovereignty
• Technology - Impact of ...
• Random events/acts of man - such as oil price hike affects other public services'
• Culture Shock - sense of disorientation or confusing from being immersed in a new culture
• Ethnocentrism - the tendency to regard your culture as the best and superior
• Xenocentrism - the tendency to consider your culture as inferior to other cultures
• Cultural Relativism - recognizing and accepting the cultural differences
• LENT - primary season of repentance for all christians