| Culture lag | A period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions.
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| Equilibrium model | The view that society tends toward a state of stability or balance.
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| Evolutionary theory | A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
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| False consciousness | A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect their objective position.
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| Luddites | Rebellious craft workers in 19th-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the Industrial Revolution.
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| New social movement | An organized collective activity that addresses values and social identities, as well as improvements in the quality of life.
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| Personal sociology | The process of recognizing the impact our individual position has on who we are and how we think and act, and of and taking responsibility for the impacts our actions have on others.
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| Public sociology | The process of bringing the insights gained through sociological observation and analysis into the public sphere, thereby seeking to bring about positive social change
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| Relative deprivation | The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
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| Resource mobilization | The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to the media, and personnel.
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| Social change | Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture, including norms and values.
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| Social movement | An organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
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| Technology | Cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
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| Vested interests | Those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change, and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
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