SOCI 405 - Social Change and Futurism

3 Credits
Three hours per week.

This course focuses on socio-cultural patterns over time that reflect ways in which social life is renewing, remaking, changing, and transforming itself. It devotes attention to dimensions of collective behavior and to social movements as well as to techno- logical competition, innovation, and diffusion as related to occupations and to business. Futuristic concepts of popular culture such as “future shock,” “megatrends,” “postindustrial society,” “third wave,” and “information economy” are explored. The areas included for study range from telecommunications, technology, space and genetic engineering to transformations in families, race relations, sex roles, leisure and the post-industrial structure of time-allocation, work and leisure.

Offered (OFFERED AS NEEDED).