Unit 15 Concepts
The important concepts in Unit 15 are listed below. The readings and other learning opportunities are designed to help you become familiar with these concepts. You should know the definitions of each concept and also how sociologists use these concepts. Try to incorporate these concepts into your work for this course.
| (1) Social Change | (17) Bureaucratization |
| (2) Postmodernity | (18) Disaster |
| (3) Social Movement | (19) Modernization |
| (4) Alterative Social Movement | (20) Individualization |
| (5) Redemptive Social Movement | (21) Division of Labor |
| (6) Reformative Social Movement | (22) Anomie |
| (7) Revolutionary Social Movement | (23) Rationalization |
| (8) Claims Making | (24) Mass Society |
| (9) Deprivation Theory | (25) Identity |
| (10) Relative Deprivation | (26) Class Society |
| (11) Mass-Society Theory | (27) Persistent Inequality |
| (12) Resource Mobilization Theory | (28) Social Character |
| (13) Culture Theory | (29) Tradition-Directedness |
| (14) New Social Movements Theory | (30) Other-Directedness |
| (15) Political Economy Theory | (31) Powerlessness |
| (16) Coalescence | (32) Progress |
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