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Acid Rain
Rain containing sulfuric and nitric acids (burning fossil fuels release chemicals that react with moisture in the air)
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Cultural Lag
Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations.
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Discovery
A new way of seeing reality; identified by William Ogburn as one of three processes of social change.
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Environmental Sociology
A specialty within sociology where the focus is on the relationship between human societies and the environment.
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Invention
The combination of existing elements and materials to form new ones; identified by William Ogburn as one of the three processes of social change.
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Proactive and Reactive Social Movements
Proactive - A social movement that promotes some social change; Reactive - A social movement that resists some social change.
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Reformative Social Movement
A social movement that seeks to reform some specific aspects of society.
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Social Movement Organization
An organization to promote the goals of a social movement.
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Transformative Social Movement
A social movement that seeks to change society totally, to transform it.
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Alternative Social Movement
A social movement that seeks to alter only some specific aspects of people.
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Dialectical Process
(of history) each arrangement, or these, contains contradictions, or antitheses, which must be resolved; the new arrangement, or synthesis, contains its own contradictions, and so on.
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Global Warming
An increase in the earth's temperature due to the greenhouse effect.
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Redemptive Social Movement
A social movement that seeks to change people totally, to redeem them.
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Resource Mobilization
A theory that social movements succeed or fail based on their ability to mobilize resources such as time, money, and people's skills.
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Sustainable Environment
A world system that takes into account the limits of the environment, produces enough material goods for everyone's needs, and leaves a hertiage of a sound environment for the next generation.
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Corporate Welfare
The financial incentives (tax breaks, etc.) given to corporations in order to attract them to an area or induce them to remain.
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Diffusion
The spread of invention or a discovery from one are to another; identified by William Ogburn as one of three processes of social change.
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Environmental Racism
Refers to the pollution of our environment affecting minorities and the poor the most.
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Greenhouse Effect
The buildup of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere that allows light to enter but inhibits the release of heat; belived to cause global warming.
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Postmodern Society
Another term for postindustrial society; a chief characteristic is the use of tools that extend human abilities to gather and analyze information, to communicate, and to travel.
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Public Opinion
How people think about some issue.
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Social Change
The alteration of culture and societies over time.
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Social Movement
A large group of people who are organized to promote or resist some social change.
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