ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Ethnocentrism, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Social Sci
• Course: ISS 210
• Professor: J.Guzman

Document Summary

All human experience mixed with social environment. Culture: total pattern of human behavior and its products. Culture creates human beings and human societies. Socialization: process that shapes people to become members of society. U. s. culture is a composite of subcultures. Challenge is nding correct mix the nature of society. Group of individuals living as members of a community. Society: group must be bound by shared relationships and be organized. Not all groups are societies theories of social change. Normal cycles of growth, climax, and decline factors causing cultural change. Vested interest: status that relies on status quo. Monday, september 12, 2016 social change and problems. Belief that condition can and should change. Large modern societies experience more complex social problems. Culture is a pattern of interrelated elements. Change in one area creates strain in another. Adjustments cause lag in which tension persists. Technological change sets pace of change in modern industrial societies. Material culture changes dont always precede nonmaterial changes.