BIOC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nation Language, Social Movement, Universal Health Care
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How do we create social change: route to social change, electoral, legal, cultural, social movement (i. e. protest, public policy. These different routes to change often interact and influence one another. Nature of society is it tends to stay the same over time because social institutions teach us norm and values that keep things the same in the society over time. Education teaches you to respect hierarchy and following the rules. How does society reproduce itself over time: when people break rules or norms of behavior, they are often punished or stigmatized. Socialization teaches us how to (cid:498)fit in(cid:499) to society (putting people in jail, giving fine, or social sanction: this makes breaking the rules less attractive. Social change is the transformation of culture and social institutions over time. Social change can be intentional but if often unplanned. Japanese internment camp, south african truth and reconciliation commission. The first nation truth and reconciliation commission: residential school report, truth and healing.
