Social Change

What is a anomie?

• Where old cultural rules no longer apply.

• When things change quickly- through sudden economic shifts, wars, natural disasters, population explosions, or rapid transitions from a traditional to a modern society- people become disoriented.

• A shift in the atmosphere.

• A sudden change in the economy.

What is a reform movement?

• Attempts to change limited aspects of a society but does not seek to alter or replace major social institutions.

• An individual being changed.

• A psycho-social motive being pushed.

• Changes in one mind.

What is resource mobilization?

• Going backwards in revolutionary times.

• Moving from one place to the next.

• How social movements mobilize resources, such as people, money, and organizational structures, to achieve their objectives.

• How the natural resources in an environment work.

Bureaucratization is a term used in sociology to describe the process by which organizations become progressively ​ (a)   by formal rules and procedures and hierarchically organized with clearly defined positions and duties

• dominated
• ruled
• runned
• taken over

What is POS?

• Post Oriented Stress

• Post Outcome Society

• Passive Overall Situation

• Political Opportunity Structure