Social Change

This deals with factors and processes of social change, and with particular movements.

   

Social change factors

Not yet well identified

Social change processes

These include innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction.

Particular movements

These include major developments such as agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution, and industrial revolution.


This will be connected to science including physics and chemistry. Astronomy including local astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology can be connected. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory may be useful. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory may be useful.

Personal studies including the human body will be important in social change. Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology can possibly be connected. Biography may be important in social change.

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Anthropology

Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be connected. Human ecology including the effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment can be connected. Human geography including Asiatic geography, European geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Particular groups will be highly important.

Culture

Material culture has a profound effect on social change. Foodstuffs, clothing, building technology, communication technology, industrial technology, and other artifacts are all highly important. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, Literature, mathematics, amd applied science has in important influence on social change. Philosophy including logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and special topics, and philosophical schools and doctrines may be considered.

Behavioral culture is a significant part of social change. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs are also important. Occupations including food related, building related, communication related, transportation related, industrial, and service occupations are also important. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, gemes, and sports is useful. Cultural events such as miscelleneous events, disasters, meetings, and holidays are important.

Institutions

Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be considered. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools can be connected. Economics including economic activity, industries, and economic systems has an important role in cultural change.

The role of government is extremely important. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations can be connected. Particular governments including local government, national government, and international government are also useful.

Religion including beliefs, practice, and organization is also useful. Particular religions including Asiatic religion, secularism, and pagan religion are also important. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism is important in social change.

Other Sociology

This is connected to social structure including anthropological, cultural, and institutional structure, and to class structure and community and regional structure.

It is also connected to social types, including hunting and gathering, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial societies.

Communities can be examined. Cairo provides examples of social change.

Peoples can also be examined for examples, and the easiest point of at which to examine these is at the level of particular nations, which are grouped under the major peoples they belong tom as far as Thailand, France, Congo, Italy, UK, South Korea, Myanmar, Ukraine, South Africa, Colombia.

Western civilization is the easiest to study. Germany provids examples. Cities include Los Angeles. Attention is being given to Anglic peoples. Anglo-American peoples including the United States, Canada, and the British Caribbean are highly important. British, and Anglo-Austraiian peoples also provide examples. Cities include New York City. Latin peoples including those of Mexico with cities such as Mexico City and Sao Paolo can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can provide examples. Northeast European peoples including those of Russia have examples. Germanic, Scandinavian, and Balkan peoples can also provide examples.

Asiatic peoples including nations of Iranalso provide examples. Cities include Osaka. Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Egypt and Turkey provide examples. South Asian peoples such are found in Bombay.India also provides examples. Pakistan also provides examples. Bangladesh has more examiles. Cities include Delhi. Central Asian peoples such as are found in parts of China provide examples. Oriental peoples such as those of China, Japan and Korean peoples also provide examples. Cities include Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai. Southeast Asian peoples including those of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam,provide examples. Cities include Jakarta

African peoples, such as those of Ethiopia provide examples. Western African peoples such as those of Nigeria also provide examples.

American Indian peoples such as those of and Mexico are also useful. Cities include Mexico City. South American Indians including those found in Brazil suggest examples. North American Indians such as are found in the United States provide an example.

History

Studies of social change in prehistory can be useful, and a few particular changes and movements can be traced this far. It seems to have been very slow in early prehistory, but accelerated substantially in middle prehistory and late prehistory.

Change in antiquity will be useful to review. A few particular changes and movements can be traced this far. This will include the 5th millennium BC, the 4th millennium BC, the 3rd millennium BC, the second millennium BC, and the early first millennium BC

Significant change occured in classical and medieval history. Study of social processes has barely begun. Particular changes are easier to follow. This includes the early classical period, late classical period, early medieval period, and late medieval period.

Modern history of social change factors, social processses, and particular changes and movements can be examined. This includes the 16th century. I do not yet have details for the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late-mid 16th century, or late 16th century.

In the 17th century, I do not yet have details for the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, or late 17th century.

In the 18th century, particular changes can be examined. I do not yet have details for the early 18th century, the early-mid 18th century, the mid 18th century, the late mid 18th century, or the late 18th century.

In the 19th century, social change began to be studied and its pace increased rapidly. Particular changes can be examined. This can be examined in the early 19th century, the early-mid 19th century, and the mid 19th century. In the late-mid 19th century, particular changes can be considered. In the late 19th century, particular changes can be considered.

In the 20th century, the pace of social change has accelerated. Social change factors, processes, and particular changes and movements can be examined. In the early 20th century, particular changes can be considered. In the early-mid 20th century, particular changes can be considered. In the mid 20th century, particular changes can be examined. Details of the early 1940s, late 1940s, early 1950s, and late 1950a are not yet present. The late-mid 20th century including the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s can be examined.

More recent events of the late 20th century including particular changes can also be examined. These will include the early 1980s, the late 1980s, and the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, particular changes can be considered. Details of 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be considered.

Social changes of the early 21st century can be difficult to sort without looking at earlier periods. Social change factors and processes and particular movements will be involved.

The early 2000s with social change processes, and particular changes can be examined. This includes 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

The late 2000s with social change processes and particular changes can be considered. This includes 2006 down to the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter.

2007 with social change processes and particular changes including the first quarter with January, February, and March, 2nd quarter with April, May, and June, and 3rd quarter including July, August, and September can also be examined. The 4th quarter including October, November, and December is being examined.

2008 including the 1st quarter down to January, February, and March, 2nd quarter including April, May, and June, and 3rd quarter including July, August and September can be examined. The fourth quarter including October and November can be examined.

The future including the near future down to next month including November 2008 and December 2008, next quarter including January 2008, February 2008, and March 2008, and next year can be considered. the middle future and far future have not yet been well examined.


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