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Exploring Social Change Theories: A Comprehensive Overview

Delve into theories like unidimensional and multidimensional evolution, cultural diffusion, globalization, modernization, and world systems, understanding how social interactions, institutions, and cultures evolve over time. Examine dependencies and inequalities within the global system.

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Exploring Social Change Theories: A Comprehensive Overview

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  1. Chapter 23, Social Change Key Terms

  2. social changeAlteration of social interactions, institutions, stratification systems, and elements of culture over time. • microchangesSubtle alterations in the day-to-day interaction between people.

  3. macrochangesGradual transformations that occur on a broad scale and affect many aspects of society. • unidimensional evolutionary theoriesArgued that societies follow a single evolutionary path from simple to highly-differentiated, or from “primitive” to “civilized”.

  4. multidimensional evolutionary theory Gives a central role to technology as responsible for change, but focused on other relationships among institutions as well. • cultural diffusionThe transmission of cultural elements from one society or cultural group to another.

  5.  globalizationThe increased interconnectedness and interdependence of different societies around the world. • modernization theoryStates that global development is a worldwide process affecting all societies touched by technological change that has made societies more homogeneous in terms of differentiation and complexity.

  6. world systems theoryArgues that all nations are members of a worldwide system of unequal political and economic relationships that benefit the developed and technologically advanced core nations at the expense of the less technologically advanced and less developed non-core (peripheral) nations.

  7. dependency theoryMaintains that the highly industrialized nations tend to imprison developing nations in dependent relationships, through trade and debt dependency, and other obstacles to development.

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