Chapter 16

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Across
  1. 6. a theory of modernization, proposed by Immanuel Wallerstein.
  2. 9. an action involving people who rarely meet yet engage in similar behavior and share an understanding of the meaning of that behavior
  3. 10. the conflict between people who have power and those who lack power
  4. 11. a temporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact
  5. 12. a social movement that tries to protect from change what they see as society's prevailing values
  6. 14. a social movement that tries to improve or revise some part of society through social change
  7. 18. a view of social change in which change is seen as a process that moves toward increasing complexity
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 22. a collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue
  11. 24. a social movement with a goal to reverse current social trends
  12. 25. the process by which a society's social institutions become increasingly complex as the society moves toward industrialization
  13. 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
  14. 27. alterations in various aspects of society over time
Down
  1. 1. a type of social movement, the goal of which is a total and radical change of the existing social structure
  2. 2. the organization and effective use of resources essential to social movements
  3. 3. a system of roads, ports, and other facilities needed by a modern economy
  4. 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. 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
  6. 7. a spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat
  7. 8. a long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change
  8. 13. the knowledge and tools that people use to manipulate their environment
  9. 15. an emotionally charged collectively whose members are united by a specific, and often destructive or violent, goal
  10. 16. the process of adapting borrowed cultural traits
  11. 17. the relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations
  12. 20. a crowd that erupts in generalized destructive behavior, the purpose of which is social disorder
  13. 23. an unfounded anxiety shared by people who are scattered over a wide geographic area