What would you change/introduce in today’s society
explain why

All Cultures are inherently predisposed to change and, at the same time, to resist change.  There are dynamic processes operating that encourage the acceptance of new ideas and things while there are others that encourage changeless stability.  It is likely that social and psychological chaos would result if there were not the conservative forces resisting change.

There are three general sources of influence or pressure that are responsible for both change and resistance to it:

1.  forces at work within a society

2.contact between societies

3.changes in the natural environment

Within a society, processes leading to change include invention and culture loss.  Inventions may be either technological or ideological.  The latter includes such things as the invention of algebra and calculus or the creation of a representative parliament as a replacement for rule by royal decree.  Technological inventions include new tools, energy sources, and transportation methods as well as more frivolous and ephemeral things such as style of dress and bodily adornment.

Culture loss is an inevitable result of old cultural patterns being replaced by new ones.  For instance, not many Americans today know how to care for a horse.  A century ago, this was common knowledge, except in a few large urban centers.  Since then, vehicles with internal combustion engines have replaced horses as our primary means of transportation and horse care knowledge lost its importance.  As a result, children are rarely taught these skills.  Instead, they are trained in the use of the new technologies of automobiles, televisions, stereos, cellular phones, computers, and iPods.

Within a society, processes that result in the resistance to change include habit and the integration of culture traits.  Older people, in particular, are often reticent to replace their comfortable, long familiar cultural patterns.  Habitual behavior provides emotional security in a threatening world of change.  Religion also often provides strong moral justification and support for maintaining traditional ways.  In the early 21st century, this is especially true of nations mostly guided by Islamic Law, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

the discoverers and explorers: 1. natives showed jedediah smith the way. 2. william sublette was the first cross it with a caravan. 3.joel walker and his family were the frist settlers to use it. the jumping off point: 1. founded in 1827 near where the missouri river flows into the mississippi. 2. by the 1840's, it was the most popular "jumping off" point for pioneers to stock their wagons with supplies. 3. missionaries from the church of jesus christ of latter day saints attempted to make independence their zion, or holy capital. the route west: 1. the first emigrants to oregon came by ship before the trail was established. 2. ships continued to to travel to oregon even after the overland migrations began, but they were not popular among the pioneers. 3. the fare for a sea journey to oregon was quite expensive--few pioneer families could afford it. i don't know the other three i'm sorry.