social change
Layered choices refer to decision-making frameworks that allow individuals to evaluate options across multiple dimensions.
This approach emphasizes the importance of context, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of potential outcomes. these factors that determine ones life and their choices are not entirely their own such as it also depends on outside and inside influences, including societal norms, personal beliefs, and economic conditions, which can shape perceptions and ultimately guide one's decisions.
In essence, layered choices provide a structure that helps individuals navigate complex situations by weighing different variables and recognizing the interplay between personal agency and external constraints.
What is social change?
example of social change: very few teens or young adults carried a calendar or planner in the 1960s to 1970s but in the 1980s and 1990s more young people began to carry them.
the reason why this is happening is because the standards of living have decreased
Neoliberism: an economic and political paradigm that advocates for free markets, deregulation, and a reduction in government spending, which has influenced societal norms and expectations, contributing to shifts in the way individuals organize their time and commitments.
Social change as defined by massey the sum of many peoples changes in social contexts undergoing change
ex: growing up with social media and smart phones
massey also described it as the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns.
Thanos Proposition
what would change?
would we go backwards in time in terms of social structure agency and culture?
what would revert?
what would remain?
how do humans become social in the first place
we learn it socialized from our agents of socialization such as parents, institutions, family memebers and social and cultural structures
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