Identify a Social Change That Has Occurred in Your Lifetime

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Essay

Identify a social change that has occurred in your lifetime. What sociological concepts can you draw upon to help you explain that change and its consequences?

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Definitions:

Research Forms

Structured documents used in scientific studies to collect data from participants in a consistent and systematic way.

Behavioural Theories

Psychological theories that explain human behaviors by examining the conditioning processes through which behaviors are learned and maintained.

Classical Conditioning

A method of teaching through which a response, first triggered by the second of two repeatedly paired stimuli, is ultimately triggered by the first stimulus alone.

Operant Conditioning

An educational method in which a behavior's potency is changed through either incentives or disciplinary actions.