Social Change Unit Review Study Guide: Reviewing your homework questions, the textbook and your notes is a good place to start Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram Experiment, Asch Experiment What is social change? Questions about Social Change for each discipline How do each the disciplines study social change? Anthropology: 3 main sources of cultural change: invention, discovery, diffusion  Enculturation  Incorporation  Diffusion  Directed Change  Cultural Evolution Psychology: Relationship between attitudes and behaviours  Cognitive consistency  Cognitive dissonance theory  Stages of Change Model  Behavior Modification  Mental Disorders  Skinner- Operant Conditioning  Maslow- Hierarchy of Needs  Woodman- Relationship between men and women  Jung- Unconscious Mind Sociology: How does social change come about? Early Approaches: 1. From Decay 2. From Cycles of Growth and Decay 3. From Progress  Tension adaptation model  Accumulation  Diffusion and Innovation Model  Factors that affect social change  Immanuel Wallerstein  W.E.B Dubois  Dorothy Smith What is social change according to sociologists? Conditions and Impediments for Social Change:  Charismatic Leadership, modernizing elites, populace ready for change  Traditional Cultural Values, Expense, Social Inequalities Conformity and Alienation: Define – benefits and drawbacks Why conform? Informational Influence/ Normative Influence Asch Experiment Milgram Experiment Poverty and Affluence Public Policy Questions Poverty Line Reasons for the Wage Gap Between Women and Men Pluralism Singularity Pluralism Inclusiveness Gains for Women in the Workforce Systemic discrimination Employment Equity Act Environment and Social Change Dominant Paradigm Alternative Environmental Paradigm Technology and Social Change Social Change Theory Technological Determinism +’ve and –‘ve effects of technology Effects of overdependence on technology