16-1-B Social Change Factors (causes)Online version
S.8.1 Describe how and why societies change over time.
S.8.2 Examine various social influences that can lead to immediate and long-term changes.
S.8.4 Examine how technological innovations and scientific discoveries have influenced major social institutions.
S.8.5 Discuss how innovations in science and technology affect social interaction & culture.
S.8.8 Investigate the consequences of change to society.
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Revolution leads to social change, as the Middle East and North Africa learned during the _____ _____ , a time when anti-dictator protests spread across their nations.
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Population can change society, evidenced by the _____ _____
generation that impacted the U.S. after W.W. 2 ended.
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One instance of population changing society took place when people moved from farms to cities during the industrial revolution, creating heavily-populated cities and giving them _____ over politics and the economy.
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The environment can change society, evidenced by the ____ _____ of the 1930s, which took place in Oklahoma and Texas after months of drought, and after years of heavy farming.
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_____ is what happened to several families in the Midwest, after the dust bowl ended their chances of living off a farm, proving once again that the environment can change society.
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Social change occurs during wars via the processes of discovery & invention; i.e. Scientists work continually to create _____ that will make them victorious, such as new weapons & new military gear.
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_____ _____ is a factor in creating social change, and it is studied by demographers who keep track of its movement, size, growth, and distribution.
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The environment changed American Society when a group of oil-rich countries decided to limit the amount of oil sold to the U.S., the scarcity resulting in severe _____ in the U.S. economy.
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_____ _____ believed revolutions would create social change, because the revolution in question would create a classless society and because it would completely change a country's economic system.
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Technology changed the 1900s so much that _____ _____ was named man of the century by prominent magazines, testifying to the great impact of technology on society.
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We know war can create social change, because when the U.S. military went to war with the dictator from Iraq, the U.S. was able to replace that dictator with _____ _____ , thus changing the political system in Iraq.
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In the form of the Wild West, with all its precious minerals and resources, the _____ _____ has been changing social life in America since the country was formed, back in 1776.
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The _____ society will soon emerge from a society that has been changed by revolution, because the people in the post-revolutionary society return to the behaviors they know best.
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Revolutions lead to social change, or at least Karl Marx hoped they would, when his proletariat workers eliminated class-based _____ & completely restructured the economy.
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Technology leads to social change, as the medical field leaned during the 21st, using _____ machines to operate with greater precision and in smaller places, and sometimes even remotely.
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Populations can lead to social change, as the U.S. leaned after the end of W.W. 2, when a flood of new births led to massive changes in hospitals & _____ .
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Wars bring armies _____ so they can fight and kill one another, and inadvertently create social change through the process of diffusion, as surviving soldiers learn new ways of life from the surviving opponents.
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A _____ involves the complete overthrow of an existing social or political order. It is often accompanied by violence, but not always. _____ is a factor that leads to social change.
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Social changes can occur in many ways during a _____ , as the U.S. learned during the 1860s (within its own borders), and again during the 1970s in a fight with Vietnam.
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Moa Zedong led a communist revolution in 1950s China, vowing to eliminate _____ from the country. But like so many revolutions before it, the new Chinese society reverted to its previous culture, including the _____ .
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When a new _____ materializes in society, it is a safe bet that social change will occur, since _____ is the main cause of social change.
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