DAY 55 Forces of Cultural Change

Today we broke into groups and you did an exercise to define several terms, explain using examples of how they have played a positive or negative role in change in society and you explained how they helped change or hindered it.

Here's the handout - Forces of Cultural Change.

Here's the list of Forces:

1. Worldview

2. Anomie

3. Alienation

4. Conformity

5. Charismatic Leadership

6. Subjective Validity

7. Pluralism

8. Dominant Paradigm

9. Traditional Cultural Values

In your assigned groups you were to do the following with the conditions listed:

1. Define it in your own words.

2. Using real world examples, explain how your condition has helped with social change somewhere in the world.  Explain how this has been a positive and/or negative for the people affected.

  3. Using real world examples, explain how your condition has acted as a barrier to social change somewhere in the world. Explain how this has been a positive and/or negative for the people affected.