Social Change Processes


This includes processes of social change. These include processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Sociology Social Structure and Change Social Change Cultural innovation Cultural transmission Cultural adaptation Cultural extinction

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.


History History provides numerous examples of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extenction. Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory is somewhat difficult to examine.	Links to other sites: Not yet developed
Antiquity Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be applied to antiquity. The 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be considered. The early first millennium BC including the 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be examined. Classical and medieval history Processes of Innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be applied to classical and medieval times. Early classical times including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be considered. Late classical times including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, and 4th century CE are somewhat difficult to examine. Early medieval times including the 6th century, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval times including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be considered. Modern history Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be applied to modern times. The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century lacks detail at present. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century lacks detail at present. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century lacks sufficient detail at present. 19th century Processes of innovation, cultural transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered by examining events of the 19th century. The early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century can be considered. 20th century Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be examined by considering events of the 20th century. The early 20th century, early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, late-mid 20th century, and late 20th century also lacks detail. Early 21st century Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be examined by considering events of the early 21st century. The early 2000s such as 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and late 2000s including 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 may be more useful. The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 including 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011, and March 2011 can be connected. The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected. Projection into the future including the early future, middle future, and far future is difficult. Other sociology The study of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction takes examples from particular peoples and communities. Other aspects of social structure and change are also vital. Peoples of the world Peoples of the world may give specific examples of cultural innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction. Nations such as Argentina, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Poland, Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, and Ghana can be connected. Western Civilization including Colombia gives some specific examples of social change processes. Anglic peoples including those found in the United Kingdom and the United States give examples. Latin peoples including those of Italy give examples. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples including Mexico give examples. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany give some examples. Northeast European peoples including those of Ukraine give examples. Russia can be connected. Asiatic peoples including those of Burma give some specific examples of social change processes. Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran give examples of social change processes. Turkey gives some examples. Egypt goves some examples. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh give some examples. Central Asian peoples including those found in parts of China and parts of Russia give some examples. Oriental peoples including those of South Korea and Japan give some examples. China can be connected. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Thailand give some examples. Mainland Southeast Asian peoples including those of Vietnam can give some examples. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be considered. African peoples including those of South Africa provide examples. Eastern African peoples including those of Ethiopia give examples. Western African peoples including those of Nigeria provide examples. Central African peoples including those of Congo DR can be connected. American Indian peoples including those found in Colombia give some examples of social change processes. Middle American peoples such as those of the Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of the United States can be considered. Communities Communities may be connected. Other social structure and change Other social change Particular changes can be considered. The agricultural revolution can be considered. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and computerization can be connected. Social change factors can be connected. Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected. Demographic change can be connected. Natural change can be connected. Social types Hunting and gathering societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Industrial society can be connected. Social structure Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected. Institutions Innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction of cultural features are often connected to the institutions and may be either inhibited or promoted by them. Religion Particular traditions including Abrahamic, Asiatic, pagan, and secularist traditions may be connected. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured organization can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief can be connected. Government Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, judicial systems, and legislative systems can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commerical and financial industries, communication, transportation, social and medical, construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including production, consumption, and distribution and exchange can be connected. Education Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course materials can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. The role of family including marriage, parenting, and kinship can be considered. Particular families can be connected. 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. Material culture including miscellanous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups can sometimes be connected. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, North American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology including human effects on the environment, relations with other life, and environmental effects on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation will be especially applicable. Personal studies Biography can be connected. Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, demography, and social foundations can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected. Science Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be considered. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.

History

History provides numerous examples of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extenction.

Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory is somewhat difficult to examine.

Links to other sites:
Not yet developed

Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be applied to antiquity. The 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be considered. The early first millennium BC including the 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be examined.

Classical and medieval history

Processes of Innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be applied to classical and medieval times. Early classical times including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be considered. Late classical times including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, and 4th century CE are somewhat difficult to examine. Early medieval times including the 6th century, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval times including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be considered.

Modern history

Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be applied to modern times.

The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century lacks detail at present. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century lacks detail at present. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century lacks sufficient detail at present.

19th century

Processes of innovation, cultural transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered by examining events of the 19th century. The early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century can be considered.

20th century

Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be examined by considering events of the 20th century.

The early 20th century, early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, late-mid 20th century, and late 20th century also lacks detail.

Early 21st century

Processes of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be examined by considering events of the early 21st century.

The early 2000s such as 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and late 2000s including 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 may be more useful. The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 including 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011, and March 2011 can be connected. The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected.

Projection into the future including the early future, middle future, and far future is difficult.

Other sociology

The study of innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction takes examples from particular peoples and communities. Other aspects of social structure and change are also vital.

Peoples of the world

Peoples of the world may give specific examples of cultural innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction.

Nations such as Argentina, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Poland, Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, and Ghana can be connected.

Western Civilization including Colombia gives some specific examples of social change processes. Anglic peoples including those found in the United Kingdom and the United States give examples. Latin peoples including those of Italy give examples. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples including Mexico give examples. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany give some examples. Northeast European peoples including those of Ukraine give examples. Russia can be connected.

Asiatic peoples including those of Burma give some specific examples of social change processes. Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran give examples of social change processes. Turkey gives some examples. Egypt goves some examples. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh give some examples. Central Asian peoples including those found in parts of China and parts of Russia give some examples. Oriental peoples including those of South Korea and Japan give some examples. China can be connected. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Thailand give some examples. Mainland Southeast Asian peoples including those of Vietnam can give some examples. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be considered.

African peoples including those of South Africa provide examples. Eastern African peoples including those of Ethiopia give examples. Western African peoples including those of Nigeria provide examples. Central African peoples including those of Congo DR can be connected.

American Indian peoples including those found in Colombia give some examples of social change processes. Middle American peoples such as those of the Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of the United States can be considered.

Communities

Communities may be connected.

Other social structure and change

Other social change

Particular changes can be considered.

The agricultural revolution can be considered.

The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected.

The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and computerization can be connected.

Social change factors can be connected. Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected. Demographic change can be connected. Natural change can be connected.

Social types

Hunting and gathering societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Industrial society can be connected.

Social structure

Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction of cultural features are often connected to the institutions and may be either inhibited or promoted by them.

Religion

Particular traditions including Abrahamic, Asiatic, pagan, and secularist traditions may be connected. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured organization can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief can be connected.

Government

Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, judicial systems, and legislative systems can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commerical and financial industries, communication, transportation, social and medical, construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including production, consumption, and distribution and exchange can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course materials can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

The role of family including marriage, parenting, and kinship can be considered. Particular families can be connected.

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. Material culture including miscellanous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups can sometimes be connected. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, North American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology including human effects on the environment, relations with other life, and environmental effects on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation will be especially applicable.

Personal studies

Biography can be connected. Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, demography, and social foundations can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected.

Science

Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be considered. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.