Knowra Cultural change Cultural change Cultural change is a lasting shift in a society’s shared values, norms, practices, or meanings. It can arise through innovation, conflict, migration, technology, or contact between societies.
Cultural diffusion : The spread of cultural traits between people, groups, or societies through contact. Contact carries practices and meanings beyond the communities where they began.
Neolithic Revolution : The transition in many regions from foraging to settled farming and animal domestication. Agriculture transformed settlement, labor, social organization, and everyday practices.
Culture : The learned meanings, practices, beliefs, and material forms shared by a group. Cultural change concerns shifts in this wider body of shared life.
Social change : A lasting transformation in social relationships, institutions, or structures. Social change includes structural shifts that need not alter shared meanings or practices.
Cultural transmission : The processes through which people learn and pass cultural information across generations or social groups. Transmission explains how shifts persist beyond their first adopters.
Industrial Revolution : The period of rapid mechanization and factory production that began in Britain in the eighteenth century. Industrialization remade work, family life, cities, and expectations about time.
Values : Principles or standards that people use to judge what is desirable, important, or right. Changing values can redirect choices and reshape accepted institutions.
Cultural assimilation : The process by which a group adopts cultural traits associated with another group, often a dominant one. Assimilation is one possible direction of change, not a synonym for every cultural shift.
Social movements : Collective efforts to promote or resist social change through sustained public action. Movements organize demands that can reshape norms, institutions, and public meanings.
Urbanization : The growth of cities and the increasing share of a population living in urban areas. Urban life brings diverse groups into contact and alters social routines.
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