SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Demographic Transition, Social Change, Technological Change
13 Nov 2018
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Much or what sociologists look at is the ways that social structures resist change. Class boundaries, gender essentialism, radicalization, economic inequality, socialization. All focus on ways that dominant ideologies and norms are reinforced. Understanding the inertial forces of social structure can help understand how it is subverted. Huge social change over the past several centuries. Technology can change fundamentally the way people relate to each other, culture, material conditions and themselves. Conflict and functionalist theories argue that the shift toward mechanized/industrialized production caused changes of modernity. Demographic transition theory explains shift toward modernity as a result of improved health toward modernity as a result of improved health. Changes to immigration or demographic processes change the ethnic, linguistic, national and generational composition of society (and therefore dominant ideals) Changes to economic, political, religious institutions associated with large scale social change. Modernity shift in all these dimensions together. Individualism, rationalism, secularism, abstraction of social institutions.
