SOC356Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Modern Inventions, Charlton Ogburn, Change Impact Analysis
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Knights of columbus adult education committee (1962) discussed: up with material inventions. Not opposed to progress but believe that moral education is not keeping. Talks of modern inventions were important given the amount of innovation. Major improvements in food distribution and sanitation raised life expectation and lowered birth rate. Responses from businesses: modern inventions liberated, empowered, and ennobled the average american. Achieving the task of making us feel together, think together, live together. Minister and sociologists on the other hand: these inventions sapped american moral fiber. Presbyterian assembly condemned bicycling on sundays for enticing parishioners away from church. Middletown (1929) - automobile and the enticements it brought within reach undermined the family and encouraged promiscuity incivility. Some criticized the telephone of encouraging too much familiarity and. Modernization is an omnibus concept consisting of many elements. Changes in social organization alterations in culture and psyche. Modernity was concerned with economic development, but also social life.
