Sociology › Section U · Social movements and change › Topic U.3
Social change
Your grandparents grew up in a world without smartphones, with larger families and different ideas about work, marriage and faith. Social change is the sociology of how and why societies transform, and of who gains and who loses when they do.
In this topic
- What is social change?
- Technology and cultural lag
- Social institutions
- Population
- The environment
- Theories of social change
- Modernisation
- Worked example: cultural lag and smartphones
- Worked example: four forces in one town
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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