Social and Cultural Continuity and Change

Fast moving, and involves a significant break with the past, often promoting broad change to society as a whole

• Evolutionary change

• Cultural lag

• Resistance to change

• Transformative change

Fighting back against the impacts and implications of changes for individuals and groups within society

• Transformative change

• Resistance to change

• Cultural lag

• Evolutionary change

Refers to the time during which traditional aspects of society are 'catching up' with shifting cultural norms

• Transformative change

• Cultural lag

• Evolutionary change

• Resistance to change

Based on the assumption that, over time, societies slowly improve on themselves and gradually experience broad social change

• Transformative change

• Resistance to change

• Cultural lag

• Evolutionary change

Modernisation is the progression of society over time from pre-industrial to industrial

• True

• False

Democratisation enabled citizens to take a more active role in politics and a growth of enfranchisement

• True

• False

Westernisation is the global dissemination of values most commonly associated with the nations of the West

• True

• False

Conflict theory assumes that society is in competition for limited resources

• True

• False

Critics of conflict theory highlight that the theory places too much emphasis on the impact of technologies

• True

• False

Evolutionary theory assumes that all societies develop from simple to complex

• True

• False