Friday, May 17, 2013

chapter 18 Social change and modernization



                The social actualization is the way many groups improve their interaction between individuals and moral standards. These improvements are made by social changes in the overall standards of the social life.  There are multiple theories of how this these changes begin.  In total there are four popular concepts of how and why society changes. Cyclical, evolutionary, equilibrium, and conflict are the four theories. Care less of why they change modernization has a process with two theories of how exactly it happens. In life there is always a consequence for every action for modernization it is the same some are beneficial others are in a grey area.
                                           
                Cyclical theory states that a social change is caused by a cycle of growth and de decay. This is a point of view of historians’, as it can be noticed throughout history. Pitirim Sorokin said that it was more of a fluctuation because of the different cultures: Ideational, sensational, and idealistic. He said it was because social desire to move to either culture causes change that is way it was a principle of imminent change. The evolutionary theory believes that this change is causes by the natural movement of society to become more complex.  The origins of this theory are from Charles Darwin, but the current theory believes there are exceptions of the step process social groups go through.
                In the equilibrium theory like the name it is theorized that the social equilibrium is like a living organism that tries to maintain a balance so that change is more of a process to restore the balance. The conflict theory is very different because it believes in the constant struggle between those that have and those that do. This means that there will always be a struggle that ends in conflict. Making social change to improve the unbalanced society.
                                                   
                The modernization theory consists in the concepts that industrialization is the first step to modernize the social structure of a country.  The world system theory is from the point of view of the economy. The core nation consists on the most power full countries and the peripheral nations are those that have a weaker economy with the middle nations known as semiperipheral. The consequences of modernization are increase in products and economical growth, yet the disadvantages are mostly alienation from physical interaction and a lack of human care.  
                 In the end modernization can bring many of the benefits we can’t even imagine living without. There are multiple reasons of way we change to obtain these benefits but in the end many values most be preserved to ensure less pointless conflicts arise when it is clear that it could be solved in one strike. The alienation from others is not what change should be used for instead it should be used to join people together to keep helping improve all the unbalances in this complicated society. Even from the economical changes it is important to remember that every aspect of society can improve over time as well as it can instead decline.               

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