SY203 Lecture Notes - Charismatic Authority, Empiricism, Mass Society
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The great transformation is a term that is used to describe massive change in. Great transformation includes changes in culture, social organization and social change (revolution not evolution) Was said to be a period of rapid and systematic change as opposed to a period of gradual evolution (canada: colony to statehood) Cultural change is related to the broad concept of culture: values (generalized aims and goals which are considered right, in and of themselves, laws, mores/ folkways (mores = bad/taboos, folkways = rules how you should behave) Organization is often understood in two parts: roles pattern of behavior, considered appropriate for your social position, status position which you hold or ranking, hierarchal. Culture and organization are two key concepts related to sociology. Post-modernization (where we are now: urbanization, heterogeneity/homogeneity (mixing of cultures, diversity, secularization (a decline in religious participation or the increased use of science and reason, globalization.
