CHAPTER 3 Cultural Conformity and Adaptation

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CHAPTER 3 Cultural Conformity and Adaptation

• SECTION 3 Social Change

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Sources of Social Change

• Values and beliefs
• Ideology System of beliefs spread by social
  movements.
• Social movements Long term conscious effort to
  promote or prevent social change

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Sources of Social Change

• Technology
• Discovery Recognize new use or understanding of
  existing elements.
• Invention
• Using existing elements to create something new

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Sources of Social Change

• Population
• Growth Larger population new, different ideas
• Movement More movement new different ideas

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Sources of Social Change

• Diffusion
• Borrowing of culture from other societies

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Sources of Social Change

• Environment
• Weather
• Natural disasters
• Natural Resources Discovery

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Sources of Social Change

• Wars and Conquests

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Resistance to Change

• Ethnocentrism
• Resist change because you believe your culture
  is best

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Resistance to Change

• Cultural Lag
• When nonmaterial culture lags behind material
  progress

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Resistance to Change

• Vested Interests
• Someone who is successful with the way things
  are now is likely to resist change.

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Assignment

• Complete the Following
• write an example for each of the sources of
  social change and resistance to change