Social Processes

This includes processes of social change. These include processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction.

   

Innovation

This may include inventions, original creative works or ideas, or new practices.

Transmission

This may include diffusion, or voluntary adoption, or it may include forced change.

Adaptation

This would include ways in which social groups modify pre-existing or adopted cultural elements.

Extinction

This may include cultural elements that are no longer used or active in a society.


This will be connected to science. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be connected. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected.

Processes of social change are often connected to culture including material culture. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered.

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Institutions

Processes of social change are often connected to the institutions and may be either inhibited or promoted by them. The role of family including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be considered. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be considered. Economics including economic activities, industries, and economic systems will be important. Government including law, government structure, government activity, and particular governments may be connected. Religion including religious belief, practice, and organization may be connected. Particular traditions including Abrahamic, Asiatic, pagan, and secularist traditions may be connected.

Other sociology

Other elements of social structure and change including social structure, and social types can be considered. Other aspects of social change including social change factors and particular changes can be connected. Communities may be connected. Particular peoples including Asiatic peoples and African peoples may give specific examples. Nations such as Bangladesh, Russia, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines can be connected. Western Civilization including Brazil gives some specific examples of social change processes. Anglic peoples including those found in the United States give examples. Asiatic peoples including those of Pakistan give some specific examples of social change processes. South Asian peoples including those of India give some examples. Oriental peoples including those of China give some examples. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Indonesia give some examines. American Indian peoples including those found in the United States and Brazil give some examples of social change processes.

History may include various examples of these processes, although they can be considered as universal and operate throughout time. Early periods through antiquity are at present difficult to examine. Classical and medieval history including early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval times is also difficult to examine. Modern history through the 16th century, 17th century, and 18th century lacks sufficient detail at present. The 19th century can be examined. The early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century can be considered.

The 20th century through the early 20th century, early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, late-mid 20th century, and late 20th century also lacks detail. The early 21st century including the early 2000s such as 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and late 2000s including 2006, 2007, and 2008 may be more useful. Projection into the future including the early future, middle future, and far future is difficult.


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