Transcript Society
Ch. 4 Society Social change – Shift Happens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM cfrLYDm2U What factors cause social change? The Lenski’s discussed how technology from hunting and gathering to industrialization changed the world. What are other examples of how technology is currently changing the world and this culture? What creates sociocultural evolution? Technology As technology changes, society changes • Examples – Good or bad? Ideas Can society change faster than our ability to adjust? If this was happening, what symptoms would we see in people? What things are stabilizing factors in society? Why? How does technology change society? Business Economics Leisure Family How does conflict change society? Your response Women’s movement Race relations Global economic conflict and competition Karl Marx – Have vs. Have not’s Owner’s vs. workers False consciousness Class consciousness Alienation Marx’s solution: The worker revolt How do ideas change society? Ideas, beliefs, values What creates “sociocultural evolution”? Technology As technology changes, society changes. Examples Good – Bad? Example of sociocultural evolution Nightline program – Tropical paradise Movie – Disk 3 Critical thinking question What technologies are involved here? What parts of society did it change? Family? Moral values? Economics? Individuals? Critical thinking question Freedom of speech & press? Who decides? What are questions that sociologists could not study scientifically? Value judgments? Critical thinking question To what extent does contemporary U.S. society still reflect the industrial model and in what ways are we now fully postindustrial? Critical thinking question Have you or your friends or family worked in jobs which were alienating? How accurately does Marx describe the characteristics of these jobs? Critical thinking question What have we gained and what have we lost as our society has moved from mechanical to organic solidarity? What is the effect of Marx’s concept of alienation on the individuals, corporations, and the society? How can Marx’s idea of social conflict be applied to future increased costs of Medicare, social security? Groups #1 = 3,4,5 #2 = 6,7,8 #3 = 9,10,11 #4 = 12, 13,14 #5 = 15,16,17 #6 = 18,19,20