Analysis: Current Sociocultural Trends In North America
CURRENT SOCIOCULTURAL TRENDS 1
Current Sociocultural Trends
Kelvin L. Spencer
Columbia Southern University
CURRENT SOCIOCULTURAL TRENDS 2
According to our text, there are eight current sociocultural trends that are transforming North America and the rest of the world. The four current sociocultural trends that I’d like to focus on are increasing environmental awareness, changing pace and location of life, changing household composition and increasing diversity of workforce and markets. Here at Tobyhanna Army Depot, a green vegetative …show more content…
Some reactions to the typology characterize Americans as uninterested in information and communication technology or collectively hostile to cyberspace. Here at Tobyhanna Army Depot, approximately 32% of those with either cell phones or internet say that they need help from someone else to set up or use new electronic gadgets. But only one in three employees here who have cell phones or internet access agrees a lot that communication devices make them more productive although the folks that I talked …show more content…
The demography of motherhood in the United States has shifted strikingly in the past two decades. Compared with mothers of newborns in the 1990s, today’s mothers of newborns are older and better educated. They are less likely to be white and less likely to be married. In 1990, there were more births to teenagers than to women ages 35 and older. By 2008, a record 41% of births were to older women and 10% were to teens. The shift in characteristics of motherhood over the past two decades is linked to a complex mixture of demographic and behavioral changes. Changes in the race and ethnic makeup of young women, chiefly the growth of the Hispanic population, which has higher birth rates than other groups, have helped keep birth numbers relatively level. The rise in births to unmarried women reflects both their rising birth rates and the shrinking share of adults who are married. However, mother is still mother regardless of how we define or characterize today’s modern
Current Sociocultural Trends
Kelvin L. Spencer
Columbia Southern University
CURRENT SOCIOCULTURAL TRENDS 2
According to our text, there are eight current sociocultural trends that are transforming North America and the rest of the world. The four current sociocultural trends that I’d like to focus on are increasing environmental awareness, changing pace and location of life, changing household composition and increasing diversity of workforce and markets. Here at Tobyhanna Army Depot, a green vegetative …show more content…
Some reactions to the typology characterize Americans as uninterested in information and communication technology or collectively hostile to cyberspace. Here at Tobyhanna Army Depot, approximately 32% of those with either cell phones or internet say that they need help from someone else to set up or use new electronic gadgets. But only one in three employees here who have cell phones or internet access agrees a lot that communication devices make them more productive although the folks that I talked …show more content…
The demography of motherhood in the United States has shifted strikingly in the past two decades. Compared with mothers of newborns in the 1990s, today’s mothers of newborns are older and better educated. They are less likely to be white and less likely to be married. In 1990, there were more births to teenagers than to women ages 35 and older. By 2008, a record 41% of births were to older women and 10% were to teens. The shift in characteristics of motherhood over the past two decades is linked to a complex mixture of demographic and behavioral changes. Changes in the race and ethnic makeup of young women, chiefly the growth of the Hispanic population, which has higher birth rates than other groups, have helped keep birth numbers relatively level. The rise in births to unmarried women reflects both their rising birth rates and the shrinking share of adults who are married. However, mother is still mother regardless of how we define or characterize today’s modern