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The 37 pages that link to Social change, each with the reason it gives.

• Social mobilityNarrower topic: Societal transformation can alter the hierarchy itself, not just movement within it.

• Social identity theoryNarrower topic: The theory distinguishes individual escape from group-based efforts to alter status relations.

• Social reproductionCompared with: Change names the breaks and reorganizations that interrupt reproduced arrangements.

• Social structureCompared with: Change marks the transformation of arrangements that structure society.

• Structural functionalismRelated: Functionalism's emphasis on stability prompted questions about how it accounts for major transformations.

• LatencyCompared with: Latency emphasizes continuity and renewal, while social change concerns transformation.

• Talcott ParsonsRelated: Parsons’s later theory sought to explain how societies differentiate and adapt while retaining systemic integration.

• TraditionalismCompared with: Traditionalist arguments often assess change by its effects on inherited practices.

• ReificationCompared with: The possibility of social change counters the appearance that reified arrangements are permanent or inevitable.

• LiminalityRelated: Liminal periods can loosen established roles and allow new social arrangements to take shape.

• Pluralistic ignoranceNarrower topic: Correcting false impressions of consensus can help people coordinate challenges to established norms.

• Historical sociologyNarrower topic: It is the broad outcome historical sociology seeks to explain over time.

• Rural sociologyNarrower topic: Changes in population, work, and institutions are central to rural sociology.

• Social orderRelated: Change reshapes the arrangements through which collective life is organized.

• Social scienceRelated: The field explains how societies change and what forces sustain or redirect that change.

• Edmund LeachRelated: His Kachin analysis presented political organization as capable of recurrent transformation.

• Agency (sociology)Narrower topic: Agency matters because actions can contribute to changes in social arrangements.

• AnomieRelated: Rapid change can unsettle established rules before new norms take hold.

• Cultural changeCompared with: Social change includes structural shifts that need not alter shared meanings or practices.

• SocietyRelated: Changing practices and institutions reshape how a society is organized.

• Adam FergusonRelated: Ferguson’s historical method traces change through shifting institutions and forms of subsistence.

• Cultural conservatismRelated: Perceived rapid change often prompts efforts to defend or restore established cultural arrangements.

• Pitirim SorokinNarrower topic: His major theories explain broad shifts in societies and their cultures.

• Ralf DahrendorfRelated: Dahrendorf argued that conflict can produce changes in authority and institutions.

• Social innovationNarrower topic: Social innovation is one possible route to broader changes in society.

• Social theoryRelated: Theories differ over the forces and mechanisms that produce transformation.

• Sociological theoryRelated: Theories account for how social arrangements persist, develop, or break down.

• Structure and agencyRelated: It captures how coordinated action can alter the conditions that shape later action.

• Technology and societyRelated: It names a central outcome whose links to technological change the field investigates.

• Social practiceRelated: Shifts in practices can accumulate into broader transformations of everyday arrangements.

• Alfred Radcliffe-BrownRelated: His framework explained continuity more readily than historical transformation.

• Ferdinand TönniesRelated: Tönnies used his contrast to interpret the movement toward modern, impersonal forms of association.

• Arsen KotsoyevRelated: His fiction is associated with the changing customs and social relations of Ossetian communities.

• Climate (figurative)Narrower topic: Climate shifts can signal or accompany wider changes in society.

• Social issueRelated: Collective responses to social issues can alter lasting arrangements.

• Social outburstNarrower topic: Some outbursts help accelerate wider changes, though their immediate demands may remain unmet.

• Yuri LevadaNarrower topic: Levada examined how Soviet and Russian society changed beyond official ideological descriptions.