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Chapter 18

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  1. Chapter 18 Social Change and Collective Behavior

  2. Chapter Outline • Using the Sociological Imagination • Social Change • Sources of Social Change • Theoretical Perspectives

  3. Chapter Outline • Modernization • Collective Behavior • Dispersed Collectivities • Crowds • Social Movements

  4. Tocqueville’s Key Assumptions in Predicting Social Change • Major social institutions would continue to exist. • Human nature would remain the same. • Equality and the trend toward centralized government would continue.

  5. Tocqueville’s Key Assumptions in Predicting Social Change • The availability of material resources limits social change. • Change is affected by the past, but history does not strictly dictate the future. • There are no social forces aside from uman actions.

  6. Processes for Change • Three interrelated social processes lead to social change: • Discovery • Invention • Diffusion

  7. Computers Connected to the Internet (per 100,000 people)

  8. Years for 30% of Americans to Acquire Technologies

  9. Defining Elements of Asocial Movement • A large number of people • A common goal to promote or prevent social change. • Some degree of leadership and organization. • Activity sustained over a relatively long period of time.

  10. Theoretical Perspectives: Social Change

  11. Theoretical Perspectives: Social Change

  12. Theoretical Perspectives: Social Change

  13. The J-Curve Theory of Revolution

  14. Hot Buttons for College Activists

  15. Hot Buttons for College Activists

  16. Major Forms of Collective Behavior

  17. Major Forms of Collective Behavior

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