What Is the Relationship Between Social Change and Changes in Space and Time?
What is the relationship between social change and changes in space and time?
Illustrate with examples drawn from at least two of : changes in cities, changes in media, changes in intimacy.
In looking at the relationship between social change and changes in space and time. We first require understanding of what social change is. Sociologists from every school of thought agree that social change is inevitable within our society. Social change is a highly diverse debate that has been analysed by theorist’s looking at the effects of social change on society. Anything that is socially constructed can be altered. Little changes are triggered by larger changes taking place. Urban life changed and progressed toward an industrial society. Space and time has been reordered. The working day was determined by the seasons, and by the amount of daylight there was. This however has changed, and the working day is now structured around clock time. Space within the home has changed. With family units not as large as previously had been and the availability of better housing conditions, families do not spend the same time together. In looking at some of the theories that have been documented with regards to changes in media and changes in intimacy we begin to acquire an understanding of how sociological change has had an impact.
The new media phenomenon holds a lot of potential for benefiting society.
“Belonging to a digital culture binds people more strongly than the territorial adhesives of geography” (Mackay pg.123) Many who are not able to use conventional methods of communication are given an outlet whereby they can. Many are unable to visit places of interest to them and ICTs host many features allowing people to view and learn about places they would in most cases not be able to physically visit. “Internet communities – which are seen as binding people together in some sort of common culture in which imagined realities are shared” ( Hugh Mackay pg.159) The new ICTs can
Illustrate with examples drawn from at least two of : changes in cities, changes in media, changes in intimacy.
In looking at the relationship between social change and changes in space and time. We first require understanding of what social change is. Sociologists from every school of thought agree that social change is inevitable within our society. Social change is a highly diverse debate that has been analysed by theorist’s looking at the effects of social change on society. Anything that is socially constructed can be altered. Little changes are triggered by larger changes taking place. Urban life changed and progressed toward an industrial society. Space and time has been reordered. The working day was determined by the seasons, and by the amount of daylight there was. This however has changed, and the working day is now structured around clock time. Space within the home has changed. With family units not as large as previously had been and the availability of better housing conditions, families do not spend the same time together. In looking at some of the theories that have been documented with regards to changes in media and changes in intimacy we begin to acquire an understanding of how sociological change has had an impact.
The new media phenomenon holds a lot of potential for benefiting society.
“Belonging to a digital culture binds people more strongly than the territorial adhesives of geography” (Mackay pg.123) Many who are not able to use conventional methods of communication are given an outlet whereby they can. Many are unable to visit places of interest to them and ICTs host many features allowing people to view and learn about places they would in most cases not be able to physically visit. “Internet communities – which are seen as binding people together in some sort of common culture in which imagined realities are shared” ( Hugh Mackay pg.159) The new ICTs can