SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Behavior, Natural Disaster, Personal Affair
1 Dec 2017
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Variations of modifications in: social processes, patterns of interactions, organizations. Invention: something new that facilitates how we relate to one another, new patterns of interactions, new ways to do things (ex: phones change the way we access information and interact with others) Discovery: new knowledge about something that we have already been talking about in society (ex: new kinds of medicine to address cancer or hiv) Diffusion: spread of ideas, changes in cultures, and new ways of thinking (ex: sexual harassment in workplace firing people for doing it because people are now more aware and are doing something about it) Conflict and social change: communities change through particular events (ex: hurricanes and natural disaster, trying to recover from it something (cid:272)o(cid:373)pletel(cid:455) (cid:374)e(cid:449) e(cid:373)erges out of the re(cid:272)o(cid:448)er(cid:455); thi(cid:374)gs do(cid:374)"t go (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to the (cid:449)a(cid:455) they used to be) Ideas and change: new ways to look at thing, changing our behaviors and social patterns.
