SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Urban Legend, Mass Hysteria, Conflict Theories

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Provides artificial means to achieve given end or result. Inspires great deal of social change that accumulates: psychical environment. Canadian winter vs. tropical environment: demographic shifts. Recent heavy use of drone warfare by us. Strong political leadership mobilizes large-scale efforts to alter the character of society. Inspire social change through personality, charisma and conviction: social movements. Change occurs through process of differentiation (parsons) Equilibrium theory holds that change is in one part of society require change in other parts in order for society to return to its natural state of balance and harmony: conflict theory. Conflict as inevitable and necessary to inspire social change: evolutionary theory. Darwin, comte?, durkheim: unilineal evolutionary theories. One path through which society or organism evolves: universal evolutionary theories. All societies progress in similar manner: neoevolutionary theory (lenski) Highlights the role of technology in assisting human beings with their substance needs. Ebb and flow through time according to series of endless cycles: pitirim sorokin.