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CULTURE CHANGE
and Social Change
Phil Bartle
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How and Why Does Society Change?
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A society is always changing. . So are all the social institutions in it, communities, families, organizations
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Some social scientists, as a result, do not like to talk about ”social structure” because that implies more stability than there is.
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From the early days of sociology, social change has been a vital topic.
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Marx talked about material dialectics, the dialectics part he borrowed from Hegel. . Weber talked about Protestantism causing the rise of the industrial revolution.
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Most social change starts with change in technology, the easiest dimension to introduce new inventions or obtain from cultures in contact. . Every change in technology then results in adaptive changes in all the remaining five dimensions.
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Change tends to be cumulative.  New elements are added onto the old, and the old may continue until they become hindrances to survival and growth. . In general (that means there are exceptions) change tends to be in the direction from simple to complex.
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Planned change tends to result in changes that are not planned, expected or desired. . The biggest change in human history appears to be the agricultural revolution, which brought cities, and which continues today,
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Mobilization, the organizing and encouraging of communities to act, is in itself social change, and results in social change.
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