Month: May 2020

While technology, population, environment factors, and racial inequality can prompt social change, only when members of a society organize into

Definition: “Social change refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values and norms. By “significant” alteration,

Evolutionary theory Sociologists in the 19th century applied Charles Darwin’s (1809–1882) work in biological evolution to theories of social change.

French sociologist Emile Durkheim believed that social facts are ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that possess the remarkable property

Sociology: (Source: Introduction to Sociology by Paul B. Horton) Sociology is broadly defined as the study of human society. Society