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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social change | a significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture. |
| Social movement | an organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society. |
| Relative deprivation | the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities. |
| Resource mobilization | the ways in which a social movement utilizes resources. |
| False consciousness | attitudes that do not reflect workers’ objective position. |
| New social movement: | an organized collective activity that addresses values and social identities, as well as improvements in the quality of life. |
| Computer-mediated communication (C M C): | communicative interaction through two or more networked devices. |
| Evolutionary theory: | society is viewed as moving in a definite direction. |
| Equilibrium model: | as changes occur in one part of society, adjustments must be made in other parts. |
| Vested interests: | those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change. |
| Culture lag: | the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions. |
| Luddites: | people who resisted the Industrial Revolution, with some raiding factories and destroying machinery. |
| Artificial intelligence: | the ability of machines, rather than humans, to address problems and perform tasks in a manner that achieves some measure of success. |
| diffusion | the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society. |
| Transnationals: | immigrants who sustain multiple social relationships that link their societies of origin with their societies of settlement. |