“EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF FORTY IS AN IMMIGRANT” Introduction to Social Change What do you think Margaret Mead meant by this quote? Do you agree?

“EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF FORTY IS AN IMMIGRANT”

Introduction to Social Change

What do you think Margaret Mead meant by this quote? Do you agree?

Things for us to think about…

Why do things change?

What are the causes of change in society? List 5 things.

Things for us to think about…

Does change make the old obsolete?

Things for us to think about…

List 5 positive and 5 negative changes that have occurred in Canadian society in your lifetime?

Overall, have things improved or declined in your lifetime in Canadian society?

Defining Social Change

Critics feel that ‘Social Change’ is too basic of a term and needs further context:

Sociocultural evolution Paradigmatic change Political revolution Social movement/revolutions

Sociocultural Evolution

The idea that society moves forward by looking from different perspectives, arguing over certain points of view then eventually changing.

Paradigmatic Change

When society shifts from one point of view or way of thinking to another (eg. Feudalism to capitalism).

Political Revolution

Political Revolutions occur when the government is replaced, or the form of government altered.

Typically the working class takes control of governing

Social Movements/Revolutions

People within a society advocate for change

Can result in massive changes in societyTypically governing is not taken over by

the working class, another elite group takes over

Lets try to classify revoltuions is either political or social? This is hard to do

American Revolution, 1774-1788

13 colonies come together, boot out the British & form the USA

French Revolution, 1789-99

The People cut the King’s head off and establish a Republic then a liberal democracy- huge influence all over Europe

Counter-Culture Revolution, Western Society, 1960’s

Youth revolutionDrugs, sex & rock n rollAnti-war

Cuban Revolution, 1952

Using Guerrilla warfare tactics Castro ousts President Batista, declares a Communist state with himself as the dictator

Chinese Revolution(s), 1911-49

Series of political upheavals that led to Communism & the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

Sexual Revolution

Moral ChangesSexual FreedomIncrease in unmarried mothersPremarital sexPill- 1957

Russian Revolution, 1917

Bolshevik Communist party kills the royal family and Lenin takes over

Civil Rights Movement, USA, 1960’s

• Civil Rights Movement

• Equal rights for Black Americans

• Laws changed

• Attitudes?