SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Exponential Growth, Luddite, Limewire

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

Document Summary

Soc: 4-5-2016 note 11: social change, collecive behaviour, and social movements. Changes in the typical features of society over ime: e. g. Changes in what is considered deviant over ime, changes in the way we dress. Ongoing process and the inevitable: occurs when there are changes to public policy, cultural tradiions, or social insituions, at imes inspired by collecive behaviour"s. Broad concept used to explore the changes that take place in interpersonal relaions as well as in society"s social organizaion. The educaion system is ill suited to the needs and aspiraions of today"s students. Digital naives: students who spent enire lives using computers, internet, cell phones, video games, digital speakers. Digital immigrants: those who did not grow up with digital technology, have an accent . Schools are designed, managed and stafed by digital immigrants. Digital naives and immigrants respond to technology in diferent ways. Innovaion: something new that inspires a change, change is slow, adopted by 10-25% of populaion.