Deck 24: E: Social Change

Question 1

Explain the tension between personal freedom and social responsibility in modern societies.How are modern societies different from traditional societies in terms of balancing these two factors? Do you think our society needs more of one or the other? Explain and defend your position.

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is the Information revolution? Discuss positive and negative consequences of the Information Revolution.All in all,is the Information Revolution good or bad for Canadian society? Support your answer.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Summarize the main arguments of modernization theory and dependency theory with respect to the transformation of poor societies.How does the former approach make social change sound more positive and easier than the second? What is the role of high-income nations such as Canada,according to each approach? On balance,which approach do you find more convincing? Why?

Answer 3

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Question 4

People in Canada are inclined to speak of social change as "progress." In this essay,critically assess that contention.Does the idea of "change as progress" hold up? Try to develop a more complex statement of the link between social change and quality of life.

Question 5

Develop an essay that highlights various qualities of modern societies following (a)mass-society theory and (b)class-society theory.Carefully describe modern societies in such a way as to bring out the differences in the two theories.On what points do they agree? In your opinion,which is the more convincing argument? Why?

Question 6

What is modernity? How are modern societies different from traditional societies? Discuss the defining traits of modernity according to Tönnies,Durkheim,Weber,and Marx.

Question 7

Social change has as many causes as it has many consequences.In this essay,identify and discuss several causes of social change,including cultural processes (invention,discovery,and diffusion),social conflict,ideas,and demographic patterns.Of these factors,which do you think is the most important? Why?