Social Discovery Research Paper

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Running Head: SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS Even though cultural lag and how inventions are changing for the better or worse, inventions and technology because having tools that are used today to make it easier to do things and discovery in the process of change. Social change being based primarily on technology is how Sociologist William Ogburn developed his theories (Henslin, 2013, pg. 463). Looking at thing with this perspectives, makes it easy to see how socially we have moved from hunting and gathering to domestication of plants and animals, to make the gathering easier. Soon the invention of plows to harvest, allowing larger groups of people to live together, creating society and continuing to move things forward with technology begins to…show more content…
Discovery is different than invention in that with discovery we finally see for the first time things that were already in existence (Henslin, 2013, pg. 464). A great example would be DNA. We are all created with our own specific DNA, so discovering this, brought forward so many new uses like being able to identify a criminal bases on evidence left at the scene of the crime. The current and future use of a microchip in a computer, demonstrates how we are embarking into biotechnology. Diffusion of these processes of change is where the information is shared with others, this includes the spread of ideas. One may discover that the invention of a condom might prevent them from contraction a sexually transmitted disease. When word of this is spread, it is discovered that a condom will also prevent pregnancies therefore creating smaller families as an outcome (Henslim, 2013, pg. 463). Diffusion of information tends to gather additional information about the new concept and its multiple uses. There tends to be a cultural lag that happens with all social or technological advancements. Ogburn created the term "cultural lag" to describe how some things move faster based on nvention, or discovery or diffusion but that technology will usually change first without culture lagging behind. We tend to learn of the new technology and then figure out how we will choose to use it in our daily
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