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| Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture, including norms and values. |
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| a theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction. |
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| the view that society tends toward a state of stability or balance |
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| those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo |
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| rebellious craft workers in 19th century Engliand who destroyed new factory machineryas part of their resistance to the Industrial Revolution |
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| an organized collective activity to brin about or resist fundamental change in an existing group of society |
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| the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities |
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| the ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to the media, and personnel. |
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| an organized collective activity that addresses values and social identities, as well as improvements in the quality of life |
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| the process of bringing the insights gained through sociological observation and analysis into the public sphere, thereby seeking to bring about positive social change |
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