SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Luddite, Questionable Content, Exponential Growth
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The life cycle of social change: social change is going through life cycle: innovation, exponential growth, saturation. Technology: technology: anything that provides an artificial means to achieve a given end or result, eg: microwaveable food have contributed to our contemporary drive through lifestyle. It is built on past discoveries as result can lead to great deal of social change whereing we rarely sit down with our families to talk about what is going on in our lives. Physical environment: where you live whether hot or cold climates has been able to provide inspiration for social change, eg: in tropical countries homes are elevated above ground to maximize cooling effects. Demographic shifts: the population of those who are older than 65 is increasing and expected to exceed. Economic competition: with china and india becoming powerhouse it led to reordering global capitalism even if.
