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Ch.16
Final
5
Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2012

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Term
cultural factors that may influence social change.
Definition
-Communication systems
-Religious systems
-popular culture
-Other belief systems
Term
political factors that influence social change
Definition
-Emergence of the modern state
-globalization of corporations
-leaders of society
Term
Economic Deprivation
Definition
-development of societies is marked by periodic class conflicts that tend to end in a process of revolutionary change
-Class struggles= unresolvable tensions
Term
Resource Mobilization
Definition
4 things to cause social movement
1.The organization of the group or groups involved
2.Mobilization, the ways in which a group acquires sufficient resources to make collective action possible
3.The common goals and interests
4. Opportunity
Term
Structural Strain
Definition
6 conditions for social movement

1.Structural conducivness
2. Social strain
3. Generalized beliefs and ideologies
4.Precipitating factors
5.Leadership and communication
6.Social control forces
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