HSB4U1 - Unit 1 Review

What is Social Change Theory?

• Developed by Thorstein Veblen

• Studies the factors contributing to change within the structure of society - look at the way people think, feel, and act to explain why change happens

• The view that social change is initiated by technology and not necessarily by the individual

• new technologies once invented take on "a life of their own"

What is cultural lag theory?

• Stage 1: Invention Stage 2: Discovery Stage 3: Determine

• Keeping up with the speed of technological change

• The view that, while some members of society adapt to technological innovation, others lag behind the new discovery

• Fundamental values of society being blurred by the rate of technological change

What is Affluence?

• State of not having much wealth and property

• If you earn an income of at least $35,000 per year

• Starts at an income of $236,000 per year

• State of having much wealth and property

What is absolute poverty?

• Lack of basic necessities for survival

• Survival, but far below the general living standards

• no official definition for it

• poverty does not mean homelessness

What is LICO?

• Cause of social isolation, illness, and mental unease

• Income and resources are unequally distributed

• cut-off below which a family will likely devote a larger share of its income to necessities.

• Large differences in income and wealth

What is Situational Poverty?

• Resources are temporarily reduced

• a person has been that way for 2 generations or more

• Situational means they are homeless

• Temporarily being relieved with money and a job