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| Significant alteration over time in behavioral 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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| A period of adjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions. |
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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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| Cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires. |
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| Rebellious craft workers in 19th-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the Industrial Revolution. |
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| An organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or 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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| A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect their objective position. |
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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 recognizing the impact our individual position has on who we are and how we think and act, and of taking responsibility for the impacts our actions have on others. |
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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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