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Understanding Culture
Understanding Culture
Understanding Culture
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This report is all about the human adaption and various social
changes that occurs whenever society adapts to a change in the environment,
social interactions and in politics. This covers the meaning of human adaption
and social change, climate change, migration, and the response of people
towards social, political and cultural change. We also provided some examples
for the readers so that they may understand our topic more clearly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
III. Migration
The Civil Rights Movement - The civil rights movement was a political
movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to
abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and
disenfranchisement throughout the United States.
III. Migration
1. Transnational Migrants - are those persons who having migrated from one
nation-state to another, live their lives across borders, participating
simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nation-
state. Some of the top examples of transnational migration include Cuban
Americans who have fled to the United States but maintain their Cuban ties and
dual citizens with houses in both countries.
C. New media - From media to mass media, to electronic media, and now to the
so-called new media. Technology has a great influence on our way of living; it
also widens our social circle. New media is a generic term for the many
different forms of electronic communication that are made possible through the
use of computer technology.
D. Social networking - is a more casual form of social media. The most popular
example is Facebook. Social networking is just one of the different forms and
types of social media. Others include forums, microblogging, bookmarking,
video sites and search engines.