ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses that the Ideologies and belief systems are often incorporated into social movements, a form of collective behavior. Social movements attract a number of people who join together to either bring about or resist specific social or cultural changes. Some technological discoveries or inventions have been so significant in terms of the socio-cultural changes they have produced that they have been called technological revolutions. One such revolution occurred during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age. In this period, for the first time in history, people changed their condition from food gatherers to food producers. They invented the plow. For prehistoric humans, technology consisted of the use of sharpened sticks and stones. For contemporary people, it includes everything from a simple shovel to a sophisticated computer or iPhone. The technological revolution consists of the joining of computers and telecommunications into a single system, which will transform us into a true world society.