 | Chapter Objectives
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After reading Chapter 13, students should:
understand the process of social change
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| | | be able to identify the sources of social change
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| | | be familiar with the perspectives on social change (evolutionary, cyclical, functionalist, and conflict)
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| | | understand the impact of computers on human societies
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| | | be familiar with the modernization and the world-system/dependency approaches to social change in developing nations
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| | | be familiar with the different varieties of collective behavior
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| | | be able to identify the preconditions for collective behavior
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| | | be familiar with the core explanations of crowd behavior
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| | | understand the causes of social movements
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| | | be familiar with the different types of social movements
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| | | understand the process of and the conditions surrounding social revolution
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| | | understand how terrorism may be viewed as a new mode of warfare
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| | | be able to identify the changes that seem to be central to contemporary social life
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