Exploring Social Change

Bridgette Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-digital Worlds at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and writing focuses on social change and the innovation and use of digital services in everyday life.

• 1. Introduction2. Exploring Social Change3. Key Periods of Change4. Exploring Dimensions of Change5. Everyday Life and Social Change6. Work, Production and Social Change7. Social Change and Consumerism8. The Creative and Cultural Industries9. Changes in Communication10. Difference, Diversity and Contesting Power11. Conclusion.