CHAPTER SIXTEEN

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

• SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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What is Social Change?

• Alteration of social interactions, institutions,
  stratification systems and elements of culture
  over time
• Characteristics of social change
• Uneven
• Onset and consequences often unforeseen
• Creates conflict
• Direction not random

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Sources of Social Change

• Cultural diffusion
• Demographic change
• Revolution
• War

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Modernization

• Social change brought on by industrialization
• Gemeinschaft
• Gesellschaft

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Collective Behavior

• Establish new norms in response to emerging
  situation
• Types of collective behavior
• Characteristics

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Social Movements

• Groups that act with continuity and organization
  to promote or resist change in society
• Types
• Personal transformation movements
• Social/political change movements
• Reactionary movements

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Origins of Social Movements

• Forces necessary to begin
• Communication network
• Montgomery bus boycott
• Pre-existing grievance
• Ability to mobilize
• Institutionalized social movements

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SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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