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G. Stanley Hall

G. Stanley Hall

developed the term adolescence, his major theory was storming through as which highlights emotions characteristics of adolescence, how teenagers emotions are rocky like a roller coaster.

Example of storm and stress

a teenage girl getting upset and crying, her boyfriend tells here to stop crying, as a result she speeds out of the school in anger.

Karl Marx

believes that social change is the result of competition and the conflict that arises between social classes battling economic resources. Social change needs to go through a series of stages to arrive at the desired goal.

Karl Marx’s Major theory

Conflict theory

Emile Durkheim

believed that social change is inevitable and follows and logical and predictable path. Society becomes more complex as it becomes more diverse.

Emile Durkheim's Major theory

Structural Functionalism

Max Weber

believed that culture is the predominate force in shaping human actions and society. Rationalization, the process where all aspects of human behavior and social relationships are subject to admin eventually leads society to be covered by a cage resting in bureaucracy

Max Weber's Major theory

Rationalization

Environment

climate, weather, vegetation, animals, populations, geography and humans,

Example of environment as a FOC

a flood destroys your hometown.

Demographics

population change, immigration, education, health age, religion, income levels and birth rates

Example of demographics as a FOC

include the teacher shortage and how it affects Ontario

Proximity

distance between cultural groups, society’s located near each other tend to change and develop more rapidly than those in isolation. Proximity allows for intercultural contact and globalization has decreased proximity between cultures/society.

Example of proximity as a FOC

Canada’s development with America right beside us compared to Greenland.

Culture

A societies values determine how they accept change, influenced by traditions, customs and believes. Ethnocentrism is when a group believes that their beliefs are superior to another groups.

Example of culture as a FOC

the Black Lives Matter protest.

Technology

Technology is the the most influential aspect of society. Technology has wide reach including food production, economy, education, entertainment and communication

Example of technology as a FOC

In the documentary, the Square, do you technology to show it was happening in Egypt without it we would have known it was going on.

Agents of socialization

people that shape an adolescents believes, values, ethics, culture, etc. They are usually parental figures at the beginning of a persons life then shift into friends and peers

Agents of socialization

people that shape an adolescents believes, values, ethics, culture, etc. They are usually parental figures at the beginning of a persons life then shift into friends and peers

Primary agents of socialization

family members, mom, dad, sibling, etc.

Secondary agents of socialization

friends, teachers, coaches etc.

Generational replacement

is a theory developed by Paul R. Abramson Ingleheart that attributes changes in values between young people and their elders to their different circumstances growing up

Example of Generational replacement

our parents believing that all their is to life is finding a job and making money, whereas we believe that their is more to life then that.

Egocentrism

is a feeling that all adolescents go through in which they feel as though they have an imaginary audience watching them, they feel as though they need to perform for the audience which influences their choices, beliefs and mind set. This is also what usually causes “teen drama” as they want to perform for their audience.

Egocentrism was developed by

David Elkind

Example of Egocentrism

in the movie mean girls, the plastics create drama because they feel as though everyone in watching them. Their is also a scene where they stand in front of the mirror and point out insecurity that they are sure that everyone else sees, even though they are unnoticeable

Anomie

a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals

How to get some one out of Anomie

establishing routines, finding things that give you a purpose

Marx's theory of Alienation

humans are reduced to the level of an animal, working only for the purpose of filling a physical gap, producing under the compulsion of direct physical need.

Marx's theory of Alienation example

Blacksmiths used to take much pride in their work, now the people making weapons and furniture take no pride and do it just to make money.

Social Construct

a social norm that becomes reality

functionalist change theory

states that each institution has a function, if the function isn’t meeting the societies the institution must change or disipear. the theory states that institutions start out simple then continue to evolve and states that if an institution isn't meeting the needs of a society than the institution needs to change or disappear. change can be good or bad here

fuctionalist change theory in artical

In the article it shows that when people wanted to buy guns, they would have to go out to get them. New institutions mean new norms good or bad which in this case would be people making guns at home being the institution and making it a new norm to make guns at home, as it would be more convenient, cheaper and harder to find. This article showed that buying guns illegally wasn’t serving the community wasn’t meeting the needs of the people, so they changed and began to make them at home.