Disorganization

Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. Social change comes in the form of values, beliefs, technology and population and many times is met with resistance.

In this video lesson we will be examining different cultures which vary from one another, and even within a culture there is variation in what people believe and how they act.

Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture, as in the global monoculture, or a homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural decay. The phrase cultural diversity can also refer to having different cultures respect each other's differences. The phrase "cultural diversity" is also sometimes used to mean the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. The culturally destructive action of globalization is often said to have a negative effect on the world's cultural diversity.

The social self is every aspect of our 'self' is affected by our Looking Glass Self in Cooleys words.

In this video lesson we will be examining different cultures which vary from one another, and even within a culture there is variation in what people believe and how they act.

Deviance, in a sociological context, describes actions or behaviors that violate social norms, including formally-enacted rules as well as informal violations of social norms. It is the purview of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and criminologists to study how these norms are created, how they change over time and how they are enforced.

Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior in an attempt to gain conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group.

Ethnocentrism is a belief that the norms, values, ideology, customs, and traditions of ones own culture or subculture are superior to those characterizing other cultural settings.