Social Change

What are the sources of social change?

Values and Beliefs

• Ideology: a system of beliefs or ideas that justifies the social moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a group.

• Social Movement: long term conscious effort to promote social change.

• Example are: prohibition, women’s rights, peace gay rights, and the civil rights movement

Technology

• When people find new ways to manipulate their environment.

• Discovery: new uses for existing elements.

• Invention: use of existing knowledge to create something that did not exists before

Diffusion

• When people borrow ideas, beliefs, and material objects from other society.

• The spreading of cultural traits from one society to another.

Physical Environment

• Droughts, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, tidal wave.

• People build dams, new construction materials.

• Shortage of a natural resource like gasoline impact society. Longer line to get gas. Bikes become an alternative

Wars and Conquest

• Not as common but bring the greatest change.• Loss of lives• Destruction of property• Economy: production of war materials• Advance in technology and medicine• Change in governments

War!Worst destruction of human life.

• World War I and II• Civil Wars ( Syria, U.S. , Mexico, Iraq ) • Revolutionary Wars (U.S. , Mexico, Philippines)• Intervention Wars ( Iraq, Bosnia, Africa, • Independence Wars (U.S., Cuba, Mexico,) • Ideological Wars ( China, Cuba, Vietnam)

• Pair up with a classmate and together identify several examples for each sources of social change.

• Also show how all of these sources of social change have impact in our lives today? For diffusion include clothing, language , music, dance, and entertainment.