SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Luddite, Health Care Reform, Pitirim Sorokin

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

Document Summary

Lecture 13 social change, collecive behaviour and social movement. Changes in the typical features of society over ime (eg. Changes is what considered deviant over ime or changes in the way we dress) Ongoing process & the inevitable (occurs when there are changes to public policy, cultural tradiions, or social insituions, at imes inspired by collecive behaviours) Broad concept used to explore the changes that take place in interpersonal relaions as well as in society"s social organizaions. Social change is most likely to occur when: The change originates within what are seen as cuing-edge sources (eg. Change addresses a strongly felt need among the public (eg. Legislaion to restrict access to quesionable content on the internet) The change is material rather than non-material (eg. subsidizing the costs of alternaive fuels vs. brochures promoing the beneits of mass transit) Change is broadly compaible with peoples exising values (eg. Educaion system is ill suited to the needs and aspiraions of today"s students.