Chapter 16
Across
- 6. a theory of modernization, proposed by Immanuel Wallerstein.
- 9. an action involving people who rarely meet yet engage in similar behavior and share an understanding of the meaning of that behavior
- 10. the conflict between people who have power and those who lack power
- 11. a temporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact
- 12. a social movement that tries to protect from change what they see as society's prevailing values
- 14. a social movement that tries to improve or revise some part of society through social change
- 18. a view of social change in which change is seen as a process that moves toward increasing complexity
- 19. a theory of modernization that argues that the more-developed nations of the world were the first to modernize because they were the first to industrialize
- 21. a historical view of social change in which societies are seen as rising and then falling or as continuously moving back and forth between stages of development
- 22. a collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue
- 24. a social movement with a goal to reverse current social trends
- 25. the process by which a society's social institutions become increasingly complex as the society moves toward industrialization
- 26. Talcott Parson's view of social change in which society is likened to a living organism. Change in one part of the social system produces change in all other parts as the system attempts to regain balance, or equilibrium
- 27. alterations in various aspects of society over time
Down
- 1. a type of social movement, the goal of which is a total and radical change of the existing social structure
- 2. the organization and effective use of resources essential to social movements
- 3. a system of roads, ports, and other facilities needed by a modern economy
- 4. a system of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a social group or society
- 5. according to Pitirim Sorokin's cyclical theory of social change, the natural tendency of a society's structure to swing back and forth between and ideational and sensate culture
- 7. a spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat
- 8. a long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change
- 13. the knowledge and tools that people use to manipulate their environment
- 15. an emotionally charged collectively whose members are united by a specific, and often destructive or violent, goal
- 16. the process of adapting borrowed cultural traits
- 17. the relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations
- 20. a crowd that erupts in generalized destructive behavior, the purpose of which is social disorder
- 23. an unfounded anxiety shared by people who are scattered over a wide geographic area