Explain how technology, social institutions, population, and the environment can bring about social change? Discuss the importance of modernization in relation to social change and what do you think Does technological progress make people feel happier
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Collective behavior and social movements are just two of the forces driving social change, which is the change in society created through social movements as well as external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations
Changes to technology, social institutions, population, and the environment, alone or in some combination, create change.
Some would say that improving technology has made our lives easier. Imagine what your day would be like without the Internet, the automobile, or electricity.Of course there are drawbacks.
The increasing gap between the technological haves and have-nots––sometimes called the digital divide––occurs both locally and globally. Further, there are added security risks: the loss of privacy, the risk of total system failure (like the Y2K panic at the turn of the millennium), and the added vulnerability created by technological dependence.
Each change in a single social institution leads to changes in all social institutions. For example, the industrialization of society meant that there was no longer a need for large families to produce enough manual labor to run a farm. Further, new job opportunities were in close proximity to urban centers where living space was at a premium. The result is that the average family size shrunk significantly.