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History & Society
social change
sociology
Karl Marx
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History & Society
- Related Topics:
- modernization
- social movement
- cultural evolution
- revolution
- J-curve hypothesis
- On the Web:
- Roger Williams University Open Publishing - Social Change (Mar. 05, 2024)
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What is social change?
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social change, in sociology, the alteration of mechanisms within the social structure, characterized by changes in cultural symbols, rules of behaviour, social organizations, or value systems. Throughout the historical development of their discipline, sociologists have borrowed models of social change from other academic fields. In the late 19th century, when evolution became the predominant model for understanding biological change, ideas of social change took on an evolutionary cast, and, though other models have refined modern notions of social change, evolution persists as an underlying principle. Other sociological models created analogies between social change and the West’s technological progress. In the ...(100 of 5245 words)