CULTURAL,SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE.pptx

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1. CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

2. At the end of this module, you should be able to; Identify new challenges faced by human populations in contemporary societies ; Provide some ways to solved new challenges in contemporary societies; and Explain the importance of knowing and understanding the different new challenges faced by human population in contemporary societies.

3. Any shift in various aspects of the society means change. Social change refers to the significant modification or alteration in the lifestyle of a society, including culture. also means any significant shift or modification in the lifestyle of the society that affects the major portion of the population that brings about pattern of behavior . It may be brought about by cultural, religious, economic, scientific, or technological forces.

4. Cultural change refers to changes made in cultural elements, both material and non-material. Political change is when there is a significant disruption in a government that leads to new or modified leadership or policies .

5. CAUSES OF CULTURAL CHANGE TECHNOLOGY According to Thomas Friedman, Technology is the driving force behind globalization. People get connected all over the world through technology. Technologically advanced countries are on the rise. Technology contributes a lot to the modernization in the fields of medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, and other industries. Life has been made easier through technology.

6. Downfall of technology I t helps widen the gap between the technology savvy and those who are not. It can also bring security risk in terms on data privacy issues, online scam, online hacking, phishing, systems failure, and the like.

7. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Social institutions are established sets of norms and subsystems in a society . Societies are composed of different sectors and each sector carries out specific tasks . Each sector also has different responsibilities that contribute to the normal functioning of the society . Each change in a single social institution, also leads to changes in all other institutions .

8. POPULATION A change in population in the composition of every level in the society leads to social change. Regardless , whether the population increases or decreases, for sure it has a great impact of all aspects in the society .

9. ENVIRONMENT A population change may affect the environment and the natural resources . A change in the environment will also affect the people and the society . Because of the changes in the population (increase), people will now be using all the natural resources available . The way human interacts with the environment and the way members of the population utilize the resources aggravate the impact of those natural disasters.

10. MODERNIZATION M ay also be considered as a typical result of social change. It refers to the process of increased differentiation and specialization within a society, primarily around its industry and infrastructure.

11. SOURCES OF CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE INNOVATION It is the use of new techniques to achieve desired ends. It also refers to changing or creating more effective processes and ideas. This is the process of translating a new idea into something that can create value.

12. CULTURAL DIFFUSION This is the spread of culture including aspects such as clothing and food, from one group to another, typically as a result of contacting a new group for the first time . When one culture begins to adopt elements (clothing, food, religion, costume, song, dance, language, etc.) of another culture, then cultural diffusion happens. Filipinos experience cultural diffusion when KPOP was first introduced in the Philippines. The concept of KPOP music and K drama was new to us at that time.

13. ACCULTURATION It is a process where a minority (small group of people) adopts the cultural aspects of the majority (large group of people) without losing its own traditions and customs. Looking back to our previous example about KPOP, many Filipino millennial begin to speak and dress like their KPOP idol but they can still retain their Filipino culture.

14. ASSIMILATION Assimilation is a process whereby people of a culture learn to adapt to the ways of the majority culture. There is a loss of the minority’s own culture as more value is given to the cultural aspects of the majority.

15. SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS AND TENSIONS Social contradictions and tensions apply only to humans. There are instances that a new idea somehow may lead to innovation, but instead, it can disturb patterns and relationships between people, likewise, the encountering of other cultures may lead to tensions and conflict.

16. INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICT I s an armed conflict between different ethnic groups. When two or more ethnic groups meet because they are occupying or living in the same territory, there are so many possibilities that may arise. One of these is misunderstanding between these groups that would likely lead to conflict and would result to war .

17. REVOLUTION involves a public seizure of the state with the main goal of overturning the existing political structures. Revolutions involve the public, and are usually attended by rapid, structural changes that usually involve the use of violence.

18. TERRORISM occurs when non-state actors use violence against civilians to achieve their political goals

19. GENDER ISSUE The issue on gender equality has been a subject on social discussions for quite some time up to the present. Gender equality refers to a view that all genders, including men and women, should receive equal treatment, and therefore should not be discriminated against based on their gender . UNICEF (United Nations children’s Fund) describes gender equality as “women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections. It does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be the same, or that they be treated exactly alike.