SOC 260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Change, Glocalization, Antimilitarism
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Soc 260 required readings highlight notes (midterm material) American social trends , harper and leicht: social change can be thought of in the following three ways, significant social events. Growth in the scale of social life increasingly connected with larger numbers of people in big structures such as communities and organizations. Centralization of control growing concentration of power to make important decisions in the hands of fewer people. Increasing differentiation and specialization in social life new, highly specialized media. Growing interconnectedness and networked nature of social life importance of networks in everyday activities. Increase in technical complexity and sophistication technology changes structural components of the environment in which we live: social trends (macroscopic) Growing cultural complexity and diversity itself proliferation of subcultures. Increasing toleration of cultural diversity immigrants find increasing social support for maintaining their communities. Increasing concern with individual self-gratification increasing preoccupation with the self.
