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Unit 2 Test – Social Change – Review
Terms
Diffusion
Acculturation
Cultural Evolution
Incorporation
Direct Change
Tension and Adaptation
Accumulation
Diffusion of Innovations
Pluralistic Societies
Elite Groups
Capitalism
Anomie
Proletariat
Conformity
Alienation
Anarchists
LICO
Pluralism/ Inclusiveness
Singularity
Domestication
Technology
Concepts
Social Change
How can it be predicted?
Conditions for social change
-Social Institution
-Leadership
-Role of the Elite
-Is the population ready?
Impediments for change
-Traditional Cultural Values
-The Expense
-Social Science Inquiry (both)
Agents/Conditions of Change versus Impediments of Change
How does social change affect the individual, society and culture?
*Be sure to know which topic goes with what discipline
Anthropology
Three forms of Cultural Adaptations
Psychology
Six Stages of Behavioural Modification
Negative and positive reinforcement
Sociology
Factors that cause social change
Reason for alienation
Pressures to accept society’s value
Two Types of Conformity
Informational Influence
Normative Influence
Defining of poverty
Gap between Men and Women
Welfare in Ontario
Systemic Discrimination
Employment equity act
Social transformation of Society
Technology as a Agent of Social Change
Impact of Technology on the home
New Technology Equals New Stresses for the Individual
Learning to Cope with Technological Change
The Influence of Technology in the home
Please note that this is merely a test review, you are responsible for everything in unit 2
People / theorists
Test Break Down
Part A – Knowledge Multiple Choice - 15
Know the following theorist’s
Part B - Thinking
theories and be able to apply them Matching - 15
to case studies/ questions.
Part C -Application
Short Answer - 10
Psychologist
Carl Jung
Abraham Maslow
Part D – Communication
B.F. Skinner
Long Answer - 10
Solomon Ash
Stanley Milgram
Essay Question
Philip Zimbardo
Write a 5 paragraph essay
describing how Anthropologist,
Sociologist and Psychologist
Anthropologist
Marvin Harris
explain social change. Be sure to
Sherry Ortner
include theories, theorists and
Ed Spicer
concepts.
Sociologist
Dorothy Smith
Immanuel Wallerstein
Marlene Mackie
Karl Marx
Emilie Durkheim