Social Change Exam #1

Agency

Individual decision making

Structure

Stable patterns of relationships among people faithfully playing roles

Culture

the meanings, values and beliefs of a social group (learned through socialization)

Define Social Change from a sociological perspective

Change that effects large number of people, change in social structure, effecting what normally occurs in certain public settings, change in culture, change over time

Explain Agency on the image displayed in lecture?

Everyones choices reproduce the culture and structure + reproducing or changing the historical conditions+ Choices today will be the social STRUCTURE + CULTURE on the future

Explain Structure on the image displayed in lecture?

Shaping peoples decisions about what's important and whats not + emphasizes structure more than culture

Explain Culture on the image displayed in lecture?

People making decisions (agency) is inspired by culture, its a adaption of structure

Interaction (Nested Model)

People that communicate with one another, interact with people

Socialization (Nested Model)

Individuals become socialized through interactions Intertwines with culture due to learning about others culture

Roles (Nested Model)

Learned in socialization as they see what's attached to these roles

Group

Another word for organizations

Social Inequality

Class, Race, Gender

Social Institutions

Institutions are society wide problems to persisten social problems (Economics, Politics, Education ETC. )

What elements are boundaries in Social Change?

Large # of people + change in social structure + change in culture + change over time

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