Sociological Theories about Social Change · Ideas about Social Change came later than the other...
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Ideas about Social Change came later than the other two disciplines
Structural-Functionalism was the main focus of Sociology during the early 20th century
Looked more at social structure rather than social change
Tried to indentify which social institutions influenced society
In early 20th century –when Social change happened it was the result of process of tension & adaptation
Tension & adaptation
When one part of the social system changes tension arises between that part and the rest.
Tension can’t last forever so...members of society will seek to reduce tension by adapting other aspects of society
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Accumulation
Growth as a result from human knowledge from generation to generation
A new development emerges onto society
Can be knowledge, belief, fashion or thousands of other new developments
Two things influence the spread (diffusion) of new innovations into society
Who adopts it
Who speaks in favour of it
Immanuel Wallerstein Focus on the nature
international trade and economics
Challenged the idea that many nation remained poor do to lack of effective leadership
Argued that it was capitalism that made western nations rich not colonialism
Countries in Western Europe were in the core of the capitalism system and therefore became rich
Countries that exported resource and had little to no economic investment into the country are referred to as on the periphery and remained poor
Poorer countries that make some economic improvement are referred to as on the semi-periphery
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Rapid writing
What expression do you use?
Do you use slang?
When do you choose to use them?
Do you use swear words?...
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Specialized on communication patterns and the technologies that they rely on
People tend to communicate better with people they have something in common with - discourse
Smith examined the difference in the ways we communicate depending on groups we are with.
Smith argued that the effects of certain discourse limited women’s position in society
People communicate ideas and values through symbols, movie roles , paintings, photographs....
Smith argued it is important to understand textual discourse when trying to engineer social change.