Search results
Oct 25, 2023 · Culture change is change that occurs over time to the shared way of life of a group. This emerges with the experiences of a society, traditional culture, organization, super culture or subculture. The following are illustrative examples of culture change.
Sep 1, 2017 · Here we juxtapose theory and insights from cultural evolution and social ecology. Evolutionary approaches enable an understanding of the how of cultural change, suggesting transmission...
Apr 10, 2019 · To provide an example, we apply this method to unpack the cultural and psychological dynamics that underlie one culture clash prevalent on U.S. American college campuses today—the clash between underrepresented students (e.g., low-income students and/or students of color) and the mainstream (e.g., middle- to upper-class and White) culture of ...
Understanding how and why cultures change enables us to generate and test theories regarding the origin of contemporary patterns of cultural variation and to make informed predictions for the future trajectories of our societies (Varnum & Grossmann, 2017).
- Changes to Car-Dependent Cultures
- Impacts of Smart Grids on Energy Culture in Canada
- Interventions For Household Energy Efficiency
- Loss of Cultural Knowledge in New Zealand
Achieving lower-carbon, more sustainable mobility is a complex quest, as transport involves diverse modes and technologies and operates at multiple scales, with local transport cultures shaped by national and global systems, resource flows, infrastructures and powerful actors. As I have already discussed in Chapter 5, the dominant mobility culture ...
Purposeful interventions can change cultures, but not always in predictable ways. One example is a study of changes to energy culture during a three-year smart grid trial with households in Toronto, Canada (Lazowski, 2019; Lazowski et al., 2018). The project encouraged residents to reduce or shift the timing of their electricity consumption through...
The role of purposeful interventions in culture change was also analysed in a study of the effectiveness of two different programmes to encourage households to take actions to improve their energy efficiency (Scott et al., 2016). As already mentioned, much of New Zealand’s housing stock is of low thermal quality and this can adversely affect the he...
These examples have shown how alterations to external influences, at small and broad scales, may result in changes to cultural ensembles that have improved sustainability outcomes. However, external influences can also erode sustainability-oriented cultural ensembles. As already noted, many Indigenous societies have established effective ways of li...
- Janet Stephenson
- janet.stephenson@otago.ac.nz
This page titled 3: Culture Concept Theory- Theories of Cultural Change is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, Marjorie M. Snipes, & Marjorie M. Snipes via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform.
People also ask
What is a cultural change framework?
What is cultural transformation?
Why does culture change?
How can cultural change be amplified?
What are examples of cultural change?
How do cultural transformations affect sustainability?
The proposed fix is “culture change.” But what is culture change? How does it work? And can it be effective? This article presents an emerging social psychological framework for intentional culture change, with a focus on behavioral change and addressing societal disparities in the United States.
