Social Change

• Urban life, according to Sociologist Emile Durkheim, is a space of creativity, progress, new moral order. It is also a site of moral decay and anomie.
• Glocalization is defined as the global production of the local and the localization of the global.
• The lack of adaptive capacity to manage the changes brought about by rapid modernization poses a serious threat to people's mental health.
• Postmodern families:
  Case 1: The father works in Dubai. The mother works in Canada. The son studies in Manila. The daughter stays with her grandparents in the province.
  Case 2: A male and female couple with their son (James, a shitzu) and daughter (Tiffany, a persian cat)