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Diffusion
population
- inceasing population can boost employment and economy.
spreading cultural traits from one society to another. More contact with other countries=more traits being borrowed.
Sorces of Social Change
Technology
Values and Beliefs
Ethnocentrism 1. people tent to believe that their own ideas and the way of doing things are the best. 2. Extreme ethnocentrism can make cultural borrowing difficult or even iimpossible. 3.Change that comes from outside a society.
Ideology- system of beliefs that justifies the social, moral,religious, or econmic interests held by a group or society.
Physical Envirmoment
War of Conquest
Bring the greatest change in the least amount of time. Causes loss of life, destruction of property can bring new cities to replace the old ones.
Vested Interests A person who is satisfied with the way things are how is likely to resists change. Oil prices dramatically goes up 1970's They will resists any change that threatens their security or standard of living.
Cutural Lag Not all cultural traits change at the same rate. the developm,ent of computers and the growth of the interenet in the 1990's led to cultural lag. Over technological developments transformed the U.S into a mostly Urban and Industrial
Resistance to Social Change
