SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cultural Lag, Resistance 2, Industrial Revolution
13 Oct 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Sociological perspectives on social change: social change: significant alteration over time in behaviour patterns & culture, including norms & values. The evolution of societies: evolutionary theory: theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction. Equilibrium and social order: equilibrium model: view that society tends toward a state of stability or balance, culture lag: period of adjustment when non-material culture is still struggling 2 adapt 2 new material conditions. Resources, power, and change: vested interests: people or groups who will suffer in event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo. Technology and the future: technology: cultural information about how 2 use the material resources of environment 2 satisfy human needs & desires. Resistance to technology: luddites: rebellious craft workers in 19th century england who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance 2 the industrial revolution.
