After reading and studying Chapter Fifteen, the student should be able to:
Discuss the four social revolutions and the impetus for each.
Differentiate between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
Compare and contrast traditional and modern societies.
Discuss the development of capitalism, modernization, and industrialization.
Discuss the global realignment of national and regional powers that has occurred since WWII.
Define the "Group of 7" (G7), its origin, purpose, its growing concern with ethnic warfare, the reasons for its transition to the G8 and its likely transition to becoming the G9.
Compare and contrast the major theories of social change.
Describe the three process of social change brought about through technology according to William Ogburn and explain cultural lag.
Discuss how the new technologies are changing society and why some societies benefit more from new technology than others.
Define a social movement, noting the differences between proactive and reactive social movements.
Distinguish the types of social movements in terms of their target and amount of change sought, providing examples of each.
Discuss the role of propaganda on social movements and the role the mass media plays in them.
Outline the stages in the growth and development of social movements, citing a contemporary social movement and applying these stages to it.
Discuss the impact of industrialization and technology on the environment and how Least Industrialized Nations are compounding the effects of pollution.
Discuss the threats to the environment including acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and global warming.
Discuss environmental injustice and the efforts of environmental justice groups.
Discuss the goals, concerns, and activities of the environmental movement.
Define ecosabotage and alternatives to it that can accomplish the same ends.
Describe some of the actions that are necessary to reach the goal of harmony between technology and the environment.
Discuss the emergence of environmental sociology as a subdiscipline of sociology and the work of environmental sociologists.
