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Sociology Sixth Edition

Chapter Twenty Two Social Change and the Environment This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network: preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any images; any rental, lease, or lending of the program.

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Chapter Overview  How Social Change Transforms Society

 How Technology Changes Society

 Theories and Processes of Social Change

 The Growth Machine Versus the Earth

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How Social Change Transforms Society  Social change - a shift in the characteristics of culture and society.  The first revolution allowed hunting and gathering societies to develop into horticultural and pastoral societies.

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How Social Change Transforms Society  The plow allowed for agricultural societies to emerge.  With the steam engine came the Industrial Revolution.  Modernization - the sweeping changes ushered in by the Industrial Revolution.

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Theories and Processes of Social Change  Cultural Evolution - each society evolves from simpler to more complex forms.  As they evolve, they will reach a higher state.

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Theories and Processes of Social Change  Natural Cycles - assume that civilizations are like organisms.  They are born, come to maturity, and decline.

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Theories and Processes of Social Change  Conflict over Power - Karl Marx identified a recurring theme in human history.  A struggle develops between a current arrangement of power and a new social order.

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Theories and Processes of Social Change  Ogburn’s Theory - proposed a view of change that is based on technology.  Technology changes by three processes:   

(1) invention (2) discovery (3) diffusion

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How Technology Changes Society  Technology - it refers to tools, and to the skills needed to make or use these tools.  The chief characteristic of postindustrial societies is technology.

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How Technology Changes Society  Technology greatly extends our abilities to analyze information, to communicate, and to travel.  These new technologies allow us to do what had never been done.

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The Growth Machine Versus the Earth  Of all the problems we face, perhaps those that affect the natural environment hold the most serious implications. Copyright © 2003 Allyn & Bacon

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The Growth Machine Versus the Earth  Environmental problems:     

acid rain the greenhouse effect global warming energy shortages environmental racism

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Environmental Sociology  Environmental sociology - its focus is the relationship between human societies and the environment.  The goal of environmental sociology is not to stop pollution or nuclear power.

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Environmental Sociology  The goal is to study how humans affect the physical environment, and how the environment affects humans. Copyright © 2003 Allyn & Bacon

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