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Title: CHAPTER 18 Social Change And Modernization


1
CHAPTER 18Social Change And Modernization
  • Section 1 Explaining Social Change
  • Section 2 Modernization

2
Objectives
Section 1 Explaining Social Change
  • Summarize the theories that social scientists
    have offered to explain the process of social
    change.
  • Explain how the theories on social change have
    evolved.

3
Theories of Social Change
Section 1 Explaining Social Change
  • Cyclical
  • Spengler four stages childhood, youth,
    adulthood, old age
  • Sorokin fluctuation between ideational culture
    (spiritual) and sensate culture (scientific) with
    idealistic culture in the middle

4
Theories Of Social Change
Section 1 Explaining Social Change
(continued)
  • Evolutionary
  • early the progress through distinct stages
    toward complexity
  • modern tendency to go along many paths toward
    increasing complexity

5
Theories Of Social Change
Section 1 Explaining Social Change
(continued)
  • Equilibrium
  • Parsons occurs as society adapts to maintain
    stability after a change in one area involves
    differentiation and integration

6
Theories Of Social Change
Section 1 Explaining Social Change
(continued)
  • Conflict
  • Marx results from class conflict and revolution
  • Dahrendorf results from social conflicts of all
    forms

7
How Theories of Social Change Evolved
Section 1 Explaining Social Change
  • Older theories focused more on describing social
    change and suggested that all societies follow
    similar patterns of development
  • Modern theories provide for different patterns of
    development and focus more on why societies change

8
Objectives
Section 2 Modernization
  • Contrast the views of modernization theory and
    world-system theory on modernization in
    less-developed nations.
  • Identify some of the positive and negative
    effects of modernization on social life and the
    natural environment.

9
Modernization Theory Versus the World-System
Theory
Section 2 Modernization
  • Modernization theory argues that less-developed
    countries will eventually modernize
  • World-systems theory argues that the
    concentration of wealth and power in core nations
    slows modernization in less-developed countries

10
Positive Effects of Modernization
Section 2 Modernization
  • Improved standard of living
  • Longer life expectancies
  • Lower birthrates
  • Higher rates of literacy
  • Decrease in economic and social inequality
  • More personal comforts
  • Improved infrastructure
  • Electricity and communication technology
  • Establishment of educational institutions

11
Negative Effects of Modernization
Section 2 Modernization
  • Loss of some traditional authority for the family
    and religion
  • Weaker social relationships and increased
    feelings of social isolation
  • Moral and ethical questions
  • Some environmental problems
  • Some health problems
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